Recycling Quotes

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)
The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse. View quote
Issey Miyake
We don't need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling. View quote
Banksy
One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods. View quote
Fay Weldon
Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood. View quote
Camille Paglia
You have to keep recycling yourself. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Recycling and speed limits are bullshit, they're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
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. View quote
Ted Danson
In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture - turning it into Pop art and camp - had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a different kind of recycling. Moviemakers give movies of the past an authority that those movies didn't have; they inflate images that may never have compelled belief, images that were no more than shorthand gestures - and they use them not as larger-than-life jokes but as altars. View quote
Pauline Kael
But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights. View quote
Garrett Hardin
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)
My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling. View quote
John McCarthy (computer scientist)
People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.' View quote
Arlie Russell Hochschild
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. View quote
Barbara Amiel
If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling. View quote
Ed Begley, Jr.
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. View quote
Ed Pastor
Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers want. View quote
Jerry Greenfield
I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something. View quote
Mike Quigley
In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling. View quote
Bonnie Wright
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. View quote
Linda Evangelista
Trump won because he was forcing the media and politicians to talk about real problems facing the country, not recycling the same bromides the GOP has been pushing for the past thirty years. Those may be okay ideas for another time, but not when the country is about to be permanently transformed into a new country, know as "California" where all those zippy Republican ideas have less chance of becoming law than the wish list of the Wicca online community. (Ann Coulter)
Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories. View quote
Jean-Dominique Bauby
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. View quote
Ted Danson
Individuals of all ages can make an important difference in the overall health of our ocean by the actions they take every day. Simple things like picking up trash on the beach, recycling and conserving water can have a big impact on the health of our ocean. View quote
Ted Danson
The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids. View quote
Antonio Banderas