Common sense Quote by Peter F. Hamilton

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

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

— Ed Begley, Jr

Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they…

— William McDonough

“Waste is also not waste, it can be recycled”

— Deepak Talwar

Recycling isn't going to save the world, but being conscious of it and your surroundings can.

— Lisa Germano

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

“What's more important than recycling? Producing something to recycle.”

— Gordon Osmond

“Recycling is better--I won't write "good"--for the environment. But without economics--without supply and demand of raw materials--recycling is nothing more than a meaningless exercise…

— Adam Minter

“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

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

— John Steinbeck

There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is…

— William Booth

“Placing a box or a can or a bottle in a recycling bin doesn’t mean you’ve recycled anything, and it doesn’t make you a…

— Adam Minter