The Puente Hills Landfill, about sixteen miles east of downtown Los Angeles, serves 5 million people in seventy-eight California cities, one of six landfills operated by the Sanitation Districts of L.A. County.
The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.
Some makeup companies have really good recycling policies, and it's worth finding out whether your favourites are among them. With MAC, for instance, you can take any of your old makeup containers into its shops, and the sweetest deal is that, once you've racked up six containers, you get a free lipstick or lip gloss.
Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.
I'm scared by the enormous amount of bottled water being consumed today, instead of people drinking filtered tap water. Did you know that nearly 90 percent of those plastic bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose?
I believe that most people would like to cooperate in reducing waste, but to encourage them, the national policy should be clear, well advertised, and consistent. Even within Greater London, there is a huge discrepancy between council policies. I believe a national waste management initiative should be designed and implemented by government.
We need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the ocean in the first place.
I want Portland to be the cleanest city in America.
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.
Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
I hate recycling. I don't think it exists. I think they've made it up to give people jobs. They deliver these stupid little Tupperware boxes and tell me, 'You're not using your recycling box!' Who are they? They're not the police.
As the pace of technology increases, the amount of toxic electronic waste is piling up at home and abroad.
Every month, about 20 tons of paper are wasted in restaurant menus alone, and so, you know, by that rationale, if you just ate your menu that was made from organic, local products, you could eliminate that paper waste.
How many millions of straws do we use every day across Europe? I would have people not use plastic straws any more.
Unmanageable waste has turned into a worldwide crisis. No matter how much local authorities do, no matter the level of public cooperation, no matter how much is recycled, the problem continues to grow.
If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment.
I'd like to tidy up the entire planet. I would go anywhere if there were something that needs tidying.
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
Here, you go to the supermarket and you have wipes to clean your hands before shopping. No, we don't have that in France, but we recycle.
There are programs for the scrapping of appliances, but no one thinks about what's involved in the waste management of brassieres.
Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.
It's hard to get everybody to recycle paper and plastic, let alone.
Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.
Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.
We might work on ways to prevent plastic getting into the ocean in the first place.
