Kevin de Leon Quotes

Recycling is an area where jobs could be created at low cost. Green collar workers. That's not very sexy.

We will have no jobs if we have no planet.

Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.

We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.

We try to make earth-friendly decisions whenever we can, as it's part of our brand DNA.

I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.

Banning paper and plastic and making shoppers carry their groceries home in their mouths like dogs is just the thing to make a little tin humanist in the Obama West Wing think he's admiral of the Uzbek Navy.

The higher the stakes, the more responsible we have to be. It was with this in mind that I began to build my Green Economy and Climate Agenda.

Banning plastic bags so that people use paper bags or imported reusable bags that will end up in local landfills soon thereafter is not the only solution to our plastic bag challenge.

I could spend my life focusing on getting rid of straws in our society.

Recycling more plastics can help local businesses and expand jobs while supporting the goals of sustainability.

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.

Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic growth - in the here and now.

You cannot solve the climate crisis if you are putting people out of work.

In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don't have a clue what they're doing.

As we look to the future, we cannot improve our living standards while simultaneously degrading the natural environment around us.

Publix operates in every county in Florida, and you get a county or municipality saying we don't want you putting your groceries in plastic bags, well, that's a problem.

We will invest heavily in safety and security... preserve the environment... make progress on biodiversity and economic progress.

California continues to pass the most ambitious laws in the world to expand clean energy and combat climate change.

By using our renewable resources, energy can be generated in a carbon-responsible, cost-effective manner that also creates jobs and mitigates climate change, providing a workable and affordable solution that will keep our planet healthy.

It's time for all of us to kind of think about the green initiative as a whole. Monetizing it is very important. It's on us to continue to put the message out.

Like all major transitions in human history, the shift from a linear to a circular economy will be a tumultuous one. It will feature heroes and pioneers, naysayers and obstacles, and moments of victory and doubt. If we persevere, however, we will put our economy back on a path of growth and sustainability.

The truth is that it was local councils who asked for the power and the freedom to try different ways of encouraging residents to reduce the amount they throw way away, and it was Labour that gave them these powers.

It is hard to see taxing plastic bags as one of the great issues of our time that merits the foremost place in our finest statesmen's minds. It is an absurd little issue, a picayune proportion of household waste, and a pointless inconvenience in people's lives.