Katherine Center Quotes

I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

I compost at home. I'm always taking old banana peels, eggshells, coffee beans, or whatever it is, and putting them in a compost bin and then using it in my backyard.

I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.

Not everything needs to be recycled.

Restaurants should be forced to recycle their leftovers for animal consumption - and should create fewer leftovers in the first place.

Get a composter and let nature breakdown your compostable trash and use the remains as mulch for your plants.

Consuming less means throwing away less, while reusing things actually helps to save the planet as well as the pennies.

I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.

We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.

Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.

Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that goes into people's garbage cans - actually gets recycled. If you go to a place like South Korea, the exact reverse is the case. It's about 3 percent that doesn't get recycled.

When we unwrap presents, I tend to sit there with a bin liner trying to collect up the wrapping paper and thinking about which pieces I can reuse and which I will recycle.

Some would call me an environmentalist. I don't know why. I reuse the water that falls in my backyard in the winter. I reuse the trash and clippings I produce for mulch. I reuse the rain that falls on my roof, and I reuse the sun that shines on my house for energy. I guess you could call me a strategic opportunist as much as an environmentalist.

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

There are a lot of irritating aspects about large supermarkets for the wannabe eco-warrior, but the one that gets most of us hottest under the collar is packaging.

We recycle everything in my house. I'm not into any particular organizations, but I'm doing my part and that makes me feel okay.

As sustainability becomes more and more of a concern, we're going to see more plastics.

One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

Biosolids

We can turn your bottles back into oil. We can burn it to make energy. Our we can put it in a landfill. There’s a green spectrum. And a cost spectrum. The most green is the most expensive.

Being green means preventing waste.

I'm adamant about recycling in my house, and I'm always making sure to turn off the lights.

Sustainability goes across everything I do with Adidas and everything I do with my own house, so the Olympic kit is no exception. It is incredibly environmental in the way that it is manufactured. For example, there's no leather; it's free from PVC. There's lots of woven materials, which means a lot less waste.