Jay Weatherill Quotes

We need to throw away less, recycle a lot more and turn much of the rest into energy.

When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.

Not everything needs to be recycled.

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

I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.

What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

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

People in south Manchester overwhelming want to be able to recycle more than they currently can - especially cardboard and plastics - and want more frequent and accessible collections, particularly for those living in flats.

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.

If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment.

There is no such thing as waste. It is just a question of whether we know how to use something or not.

For every new thing that I buy, I have to throw something out.

There is no 'recycle too much.' That's an oxymoron.

There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.

I was brought up to reuse things.

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

Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.

If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.

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.

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.

If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.

We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.