Business Quote by Ellen MacArthur

Put simply, if we do not redirect our extraction and production systems and change the way we distribute, consume, and dispose of our stuff…

— Annie Leonard

Waste does not exist in nature because ecosystems reuse everything that grows in a never-ending cycle of efficiency and purpose.

— Frans van Houten

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

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

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

— David Suzuki

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

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

“Waste is any human activity which absorbs resources but creates no value. — James P. Womak and Daniel T. Jones, Lean Thinking (Free Press)”

— Ash Maurya

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

Reducing the damage from waste might require expanding the traditional definition of waste - not just as old-fashioned garbage, but as a result of…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

— Mason Cooley

"Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of…

— Jimmy Carter