Marcel Wanders Quotes

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.

Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.

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.

I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.

Integrity is the distinctive Santoni trait. Their attention for the longevity of good product matches the widely-felt need for fashion that's less superficial and volatile.

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

I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.

I was brought up to reuse things.

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

In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

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.

Nothing is wasted.

My father was in the paper recycling business back before they called it recycling.

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.

I don't subscribe to the view some people have in the industry that you should purposefully design products that do not last that long. I don't think it is good for anyone.

There's a reason good fabrics have a cost. They're done with good quality to last.

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

What humans aren't good at is trying to consume less, to consume less plastic, to not be lazy.

If we want a world that is truly sustainable, we have to realize that something old can also be perfect. Otherwise, we'll just throw away our yesterday.

We never pull down the quality of the product, and I think that pays in the long term. People come up to me and say, 'I'm still wearing a Missoni sweater from 30 years ago, and it still looks great.' So quality, specificity and passion.

We are buying stuff we know we don't need, and that is a problem we should face in design. It starts with creating an object that transports through time a valuable idea: that it can live forever.

When I buy something, I do so with the intention of keeping it forever.

We don't want to be hot; we want to last - because eventually hot gets cooled down.

Single-use wearables are tough to sustain from a user perspective.