Quotes About Recycling

#1. My mom is the recycling Nazi, and I always bring a bag to the grocery store.

Jane Levy

#2. Home after midnight from a debate on the wording of a minor municipal bylaw on bottle recycling, he felt like he was a pin in the hinge of power.

Annie Proulx

#3. If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.

Bill Nye

#4. Iron Sisters also badass at recycling!

Cassandra Clare

#5. Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.

Martina Navratilova

#6. Are you a drinker?' the doctor asked. I heard the clunk clunk clunk clunk clunk of empty wine bottles hitting the bottom of my recycling bin.
'Um, I suppose I would say that.

Lauren Sams

#7. Energy = Future = Power = Money = Career = Recycling (E = R).

Mehmet Kececi

#8. We were in recycling before recycling was cool.

Anthony Pratt

#9. 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

#10. But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

Garrett Hardin

#11. At the store, they have one-hundred-percent-recycled toilet paper," Marla says. "The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper." I

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. Ruth believed in precycling. An evolution on recycling. She made use of things before people threw them out.

Louise Penny

#13. Naturally, the system would have to be rigidly closed, recycling all food, air, and other expendables. But, of course, that's just how the Earth operates - on a slightly larger scale.

Arthur C. Clarke

#14. - Is recycling to do with global warming?
- Need you ask?
- Well, I only ask because we've been recycling for twenty years or so, and no one was talking about global warming back then.

Julian Barnes

#15. By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which has become even more entrenched in the 400 years since: that all the truly essential stories are already in the bag.

Michel Faber

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

James Van Der Beek

#17. I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea.

Paul Lansky

#18. The future is trash. Recycling it, re-arranging it. Making it beautiful again.

Chris Campanioni

#19. The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just be about recycling things to give them a second life. We should also be gathering up people and giving them a second chance.

Van Jones

#20. One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.

Fay Weldon

#21. Others may dispute this, we have tried to keep that sense of experimentation and putting new people up alive. And we haven't become a show, where we're like, "We know the 20 comics who are good and we're just going to keep on recycling them."

Scott Aukerman

#22. The endless, agonizing recycling of what might have been, soon followed by a litany of rationalizations and self-deceptions as you struggle to reconcile the void between the person you want to be and the person you fear you are..

Jon Krakauer

#23. What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling.

Chuck Palahniuk

#24. There's an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by the qualities within the raw materials ... I come across many things which have been abandoned and find something more in them than their intrinsic worthlessness.

Ptolemy

#25. The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper.

Chuck Palahniuk

#26. There's more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

Dennis Prager

#27. The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, they can take an unwanted item of clothing and pop it in the recycling bin in their M&S store for Oxfam.

Joanna Lumley

#28. The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.

John Henry Holland

#29. You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.

Harold Prince

#30. I love to work. When I was a kid, I would invite my friends over to play, then I would take them over to a recycling plant and we would haul glass all day. They hated me for this, but I thought it was fun.

James Marsters

#31. I'm really interested in how you create a whole new economy of recycling. It's literally the 'underground economy.' All this stuff that on the surface creates growth and profit, ends up with waste, junk, and CO2. So how do you make it economic to bring new players into the ball game?

Peter Senge

#32. Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.

Peter F. Hamilton

#33. My father was in the paper recycling business back before they called it recycling.

Daniel Keyes

#34. We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.

Ted Danson

#35. Together we made our way from the service entrances in back to the front, Jenks shedding clothes and handing them to me to stuff in my bag every few yards. It was terribly distracting, but I managed to avoid running into the Dumpsters and recycling bins.

Kim Harrison

#36. Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food every time you eat it because you're recycling all those calories through it. I know a lot of people who came to this issue not through animal welfare but through wastefulness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#37. A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills.

Carol Browner

#38. I wish for recycling to become a major industrial agriculture.

Tishuan Scott

#39. My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.

Joe Mande

#40. We don't need more recycling, we need a completely different system of closed-loop manufacturing, and no matter how many cans I crush, my personal actions at the consumer level are of very little importance in getting us there.

Alex Steffen

#41. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

William Shakespeare

#42. In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.

Michael E. Mann

#43. Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.

Jasper Fforde

#44. 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

#45. The devil doesn't really have any new schemes, ideas, or initiatives. He keeps on recycling and reusing the same old temptations, adorning them in different attires.

Pedro Okoro

#46. 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.

Andrew Dost

#47. I threw one box in the recycling bin. I'm going to hell, a hell in which eternity is a Kindle with a dead battery.

Linda Grant

#48. If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

Ed Begley Jr.

#49. I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth.

Rainn Wilson

#50. Responsible murder is the new recycling.

Isaac Marion

#51. Today is Earth Day. The way I see it, as humans the very least we can do is recycle. A lot of recycling is going on this year. For example, Bushes and Clintons.

David Letterman

#52. 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

#53. One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.

P. J. O'Rourke

#54. The announcement that there is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen television series hasn't caused me to drastically alter my opinions. Now it seems they are recycling things that have already proven not to work.

Alan Moore

#55. 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.

Linda Evangelista

#56. I'm super annoying, I'm the kind of guy that if there's no recycling bins around I hoard plastic bottles, put them in my bag and I bring them home. If I can afford it I want to put solar panels in.

Darren Criss

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

Geoff Mulgan

#58. The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.

Jesse Jackson

#59. I banned bottled water from my house - we have a water-filter system so you can drink from the tap. We always drink out of glass, and recycling is a huge deal, which everybody can partake in.

Eva Longoria

#60. Recycling is what we do when we're out of options to avoid, repair, or reuse the product first. Firstly: Reduce. Don't buy what we don't need. Repair: Fix stuff that still has life in it. Reuse: Share. Then, only when you've exhausted those options, recycle.

Annie Leonard

#61. Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

Ted Danson

#62. It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

Erin O'Connor

#63. I am in a constant cycle of selling my clothes at Wasteland and buying from Goodwill. Once or twice a year, I go through my closet and donate everything to Goodwill. It feels like I am recycling my fashion.

Jenny Lewis

#64. Are you recycling? Are you!? You just killed a polar bear! YOU!

Russell Howard

#65. Turns out Valhalla had been sending its recycling to home plate at Fenway, which could explain any problems the Red Sox were having with their offensive lineup.

Rick Riordan

#66. Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future.

Frances Beinecke

#67. I am like the water that runs over me, immune to permanence, recycling endlessly. I am water; I am life. The form may change, but the substance stays the same. Strike me down and I will rise again. Vincit qui patitur.

Rick Yancey

#68. Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

Ed Pastor

#69. The pig is converting a tasteless piece of fruit, essentially garbage, into one of the most delicious foods known to man. The pig has to be one of the most successful recycling programs ever. When you think about it, that is more impressive than anything Steve Jobs did.

Jim Gaffigan

#70. Thousands of years ago, after the big Titan-God war, the gods had sliced him into bits with his own scythe and scattered his remains in Tartarus, which is like the gods' bottomless recycling bin for their enemies.

Rick Riordan

#71. Marathon tidying produces a heap of garbage. At this stage, the one disaster that can wreak more havoc than an earthquake is the entrance of that recycling expert who goes by the alias of "mother.

Marie Kondo

#72. Rich people's garbage was every year more complex, rife with hybrid materials, impurities, impostors. Planks that looked like wood were shot through with plastic. How was he to classify a loofah? The owners of the recycling plants demanded waste that was all one thing, pure.

Katherine Boo

#73. Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

Chuck Palahniuk

#74. I buy things through the ShopStyle app on my phone, then have them delivered to a neighbour so Oliver doesn't see them arrive. When he's out, I collect them, cut off the labels, and bury them deep in the recycling box under the wine bottles.

Helen George

#75. Consider the willful scorching of the earth, over-fishing, wasteful hunting, excessive and dangerous recycling of resources, and other similar "injustices" against the ways of nature share in the responsibility for this ecological spiraling down.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Of Constantinople

#76. Drinking your own blood is the paradigm of recycling.

Gary Busey

#77. My ride's here."
"Temporary ride."
Blue exploded, hurling her yogurt container into the recycling bin. "What is it, Orla? Jealousy? Or what? You just don't want me to like them as well as I do because ... you're trying to save me from being hurt? You know what else is temporary? Life.

Maggie Stiefvater

#78. When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

Barbara Amiel

#79. Create a wonderful Christmas or winter centerpiece using this wine bottle craft! You'll turn something destined for the recycling bin into a gorgeous and dramatic centerpiece, perfect for holiday parties.

Julia Litz

#80. Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a 'smart' trash bin that aims to revolutionize the recycling process.

Evgeny Morozov

#81. I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.

Mike Quigley

#82. There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.

Eric Schmidt

#83. The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.

Wes Jackson

#84. I'm not really very funny, I just keep recycling jokes.

Reese Roper

#85. Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#86. One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips. People will then be literally kissing ass.

Dave Barry

#87. What's more important than recycling? Producing something to recycle.

Gordon Osmond

#88. Meg lit the gas burner, above which a pan sat in readiness. "The soup is all homemade." "Meg, it's Heinz tomato." Sanne held up the empty tin she'd spotted in the recycling pile. "To which I have added extra pepper and a spoonful of Bovril, thus rendering it homemade.

Cari Hunter

#89. My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.

John McCarthy

#90. The point about food is that a lot of it used to be left-overs and recycling.

Jeanette Winterson

#91. 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.

Howard Schultz

#92. Creativity is fragile; if you don't nurture it, it can die, leaving you recycling old ideas and pretending they're fresh. It's a sure road to mediocrity.

Lee Silber

#93. Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers want.

Jerry Greenfield

#94. We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

Neil LaBute

#95. We don't need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.

Banksy

#96. There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)

Keith Ablow

#97. I'm all in favor of recycling everything we can, but it's strange to see your past walking around with a new identity.

Catherine Clark

#98. That's really eco-friendly of you," Vee told Marcie. "Recycling Nora's old trash.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#99. O love, please give me a passionate red recycling bin. I will put my desire in it. I don't ever want to throw love away.

Derrick Williams

#100. Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.

Ruth Ann Minner