Landfill Quotes

#1. Supermarkets didn't even want to talk to me about how much food they were wasting. I'd been round the back. I'd seen bins full of food being locked and then trucked off to landfill sites, and I thought, surely there is something more sensible to do with food than waste it.

Tristram Stuart

#2. Jahrling sat down at his desk and sighed. There was a landfill of papers on his desk, mostly about smallpox, and it was discouraging. On top of the heap sat a large red book with silver

Richard Preston

#3. One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

Edward Abbey

#4. You'll leave a trail of trash on this Earth that will far exceed anything of worth you leave behind. For every ounce of heirloom, you leave a ton of landfill.

Adam Sternbergh

#5. I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don't know, I'm just terrified with the proliferation of plastic.

Helen Mirren

#6. Of all records, Chase, Some Girls! It was in a clutch of the most horrendous crap, J. Geils Band, Sniff 'n' the Tears, the kind of albums you'd use for landfill.

Jonathan Lethem

#7. Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

Jim Hightower

#8. I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.

Dan Phillips

#9. Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.

Dan Phillips

#10. Emotional troubles are like landfill. Get them outside, and the air disintegrates them.

Joan Rivers

#11. The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.

James Young

#12. Food redistribution is one of the best win-win solutions for food waste avoidance. Food companies can often save money by donating food rather than paying the £80 or so per tonne in landfill tax and disposal costs.

Tristram Stuart

#13. I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.

Ed Rendell

#14. We wondered why when a child laughed, he belonged to Daddy, and when he had a sagging diaper that smelled like a landfill, 'He wants his mother.'

Erma Bombeck

#15. Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake ... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.

William Rathje

#16. A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

Neil Tierney

#17. I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.

Charlie Sheen

#18. They're distracted. Good thing about living in the landfill," he said. "Lots here to catch the attention of the fae. They're so ADHD.

Red Tash

#19. Find a bigger enemy than just a rival brand. It can be bad design. It can be time. It can be pollution. It can be ugliness. It can be bad service. It can be landfill. It can be complexity. But pick your enemy well. It will drive you forward.

David Hieatt

#20. 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.

Tristram Stuart

#21. The pleasure of the mulch pile is incomprehensible. I wouldn't care if they just hauled the mulch to the landfill somewhere. Obviously, grass clippings are biodegradable, but when they're bunched together at the landfill, they become badly influenced by other garbage.

Paula Poundstone

#22. I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. Today Jacob is the Operations Director of the Kiefer Landfill Gas-to-Energy Plant for SMUD.

Charles Vrooman

#24. Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

David Amram

#25. I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most haunting place.

Lucy Walker

#26. I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work. I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It's fascinating because you learn a new field each time.

Agnes Denes

#27. It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound ... it's like musical landfill.

James Blake

#28. 'Landfill' by Daughter has calming, rich tones that are only improved upon by the gorgeous voice of Daughter.

Ben Lovett

#29. Glue actually contaminates recyclables. We throw things in a landfill just because they're glued together.

Janine Benyus

#30. We're looking for answers in a landfill instead of looking to people who bring the light.

Christopher Titus

#31. Films go into vaults, art into museums, and music into halls of fame. Most fashion is worn for a few seasons and off-loaded into the recycling bin or, worse, some landfill.

Robin Givhan

#32. I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.

Ed Rendell

#33. 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.

Vik Muniz

#34. And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.

Ed Rendell

#35. It is hardly surprising that the malodorous field of garbology has not attained the popularity of rocket science, oil exploration, or brain surgery.

Hans Y. Tammemagi