Economy Quote by Annie Leonard

The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by…

— Ellen MacArthur

The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find…

— Stuart Ewen

We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage of nuclear…

— Paul Hawken

“The economy is now consuming the planet’s available resources on a scale that rivals their supply while releasing its waste products back into the…

— James Gustave Speth

Our myopic focus on producing and consuming as cheaply as possible has created a linear economy in which objects are briefly used and then…

— Frans van Houten

“It’s time to put aside the search for economic laws demonstrating that growing national output will eventually deliver ecological health. Economics, it turns out,…

— Kate Raworth

To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be…

— David Korten

Why do we send valuable items like aluminium and food waste to landfill when we can turn them into new cans and renewable energy?…

— Hilary Benn

Waste equals food, whether it's food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle to grave.…

— William McDonough

Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species and upsets…

— Peter Marshall

If we attempt to preserve the consumer economy indefinitely, ecological forces will dismantle it savagely. If we proceed to dismantle it gradually ourselves, we…

— Alan Thein Durning

“American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash -- all of them -- surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost…

— John Steinbeck