Abandoned Quote by Ptolemy

There's a recycling mentality about my work.

— Wangechi Mutu

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

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being…

— John Chamberlain

I'm really into the recycling of art. That one piece of art inspires another piece of art, which inspires another piece of art. I…

— Mark Foster

“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

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

“There was a burst of enthusiasm for recycling every so often, but it usually didn't extend to the heart or the mind. It was…

— Ann Brashares

“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

The greatest wastes are unused talents and untried ideas.

— Anonymous

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

I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what I labeled…

— Martha Beck

“The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see…

— John Steinbeck