Green Practices Quotes

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

In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It's environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill.

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.

The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.

If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.

It's all about fair trade, and helping people eating locally grown stuff. We're recycling everything. We're trying to tour in the most conscious way possible, environmentally and socially.

While we reduce our own carbon footprint we will encourage the companies who truck our DVDs and newspapers, sell us paper, and provide an enormous range of products and services to all contribute.

Good stewardship of the environment and our natural resources is necessary.

In the UK what we've found is that even businesses which prided themselves already on their efficient management find that a really beady-eyed scrutiny of their resource management, with an eye to environmental best-practice and long term sustainability, produce fresh efficiency and fresh savings that actually shock those in the company

What I really want to happen is for all companies to become eco - especially fast fashion companies.

I think there is a way to do things right to tread lightly on the world

We're doing a partial green nursery and trying as hard as we can to do as much organic stuff for our nursery as we can.

You can push your local communities to adopt more sustainable sources of energy and environmentally-friendly practices.

My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

It makes a big difference to recycle. It makes a big difference to use recycled products. It makes a big difference to reuse things, to not use the paper cup - and each time you do, that's a victory.

Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business.

Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.

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

Everyone is slowly catching on to this one - and I know everyone says this - but we need to make a little more effort with the environment. Everyone says they turn off their lights, but do they really?

All it takes is to pick up that one piece of trash you pass everyday on your way to work. Or to turn the water faucet off when you're brushing your teeth from afar. Or to compost. Or to buy 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper. Or to utilize vintage stores and secondhand markets. Or to fully devote yourself to only buying vegetables from local sources. It is remarkably easy to incorporate sustainable choices into our everyday, busy lives.

I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.

We have to be responsible towards the environment when we celebrate our festivals.

In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.

It's more expensive for me to make my shoes. I don't use animal-based glues or fish-based glues. So that costs me more. And, you know, like anything in life - mass marketing of anything - mass manufacturing of anything costs less.

We should be concerned about our immediate environment. Taking care of the leaking tap, not wasting water while washing hands, and other such gestures will go a long way in helping the environment.