The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
... for nearly 40 years, while producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs at a local factory, Monsanto Co. routinely discharged… — Michael Grunwald Copy Share Image
We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During… — William Rathje Copy Share Image
A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design! — Neil Tierney Copy Share Image
Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“By the Angel,” Jace said, looking the demon up and down. “I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugly, but no… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work. I studied… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill. — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Baby, I have no idea how this will end. Maybe the equator will fall like a hula hoop from the earth's hips… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
... laws governing pollution tend to move pollutants from one medium to another. So, for example, we scrub SO2 from power plants… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of… — Carol Browner Copy Share Image
Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills. — Nick Goepper Copy Share Image
The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site,… — James Young Copy Share Image
We wondered why when a child laughed, he belonged to Daddy, and when he had a sagging diaper that smelled like a… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The pleasure of the mulch pile is incomprehensible. I wouldn't care if they just hauled the mulch to the landfill somewhere. Obviously,… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
Emotional troubles are like landfill. Get them outside, and the air disintegrates them. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Why do we send valuable items like aluminium and food waste to landfill when we can turn them into new cans and… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
We're looking for answers in a landfill instead of looking to people who bring the light. — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
