David P. Steiner Quotes

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.

We can no longer throw our waste away because there is no away.

We're not going to allow Virginia to become a trash depository for New York or anyplace else.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

I'm an environmentalist; I recycle.

I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

God help anyone who disobeys my recycling system. I have all the separated bins. I'm very adamant about it because I try to be a good citizen of the world, I really do. I even use eco-friendly cleaning products, but sometimes you just have to break open the disinfectant. Some jobs require it.

The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station, doesn't have the luxury of disposal: discharging trash into space has long been judged a bad idea.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

I pick up other people's trash. I'm sort of obsessed.

The affluent society has become an effluent society. The 6 percent of the world's population in the United States produces 70 percent or more of the world's solid wastes

In order to produce enough gold to create a wedding band, … a mine would have to extract tens or hundreds of thousands of pounds of ore. … each mine produces thousands of tons of waste rock and other materials. The end result is that mines across the West create millions of tons of waste. This waste is usually stored on the earth's surface in vast piles that may be hundreds of feet high and cover an area the size of several football fields.

Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests, and exterminate fishes, birds, and mammals—not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements.

Your armed struggles for profit Have left collars of waste upon My shore,, Currents of debris upon my breast.

Our beaches should not be garbage dumps. Our oceans must not be cesspools.

The city of gardens [New Delhi] has become the city of garbage.

Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we will end up in affluent misery.

We're in a war, the war of industrial civilization against the natural world.

The cheap and easy days of waste disposal are over.

This is a turning point in human history.

Humanity is consuming the resources of the earth and life in an excessive and disordered way, forgetting the earth's own needs

Solution to pollution by dilution is fallacious.

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.