North america Quote by Rachel Botsman

If I get that thing down there in that area, that's 67% lifetime. If you don't believe me, Google it. I'm on the Internet.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Think of a world where there is no ride-sharing; people are driving themselves to work. You now have 30 people being served by 30…

— Travis Kalanick

In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.

— Michael E. Mann

“According to Annie Leonard of the Story of Stuff Project, in the U.S. we are using more than our share of resources to make…

— Genevieve Parker Hill

“Even if through simple living and rigorous recycling you stopped your own average Americans annual one ton of garbage production, your per capita share…

— Derrick Jensen

We probably release 1% of the products that we are working on.

— Evan Spiegel

“What is the 20% of my belongings that I use 80% of the time? Eliminate the other 80% in clothing, magazines, books, and all…

— Timothy Ferriss

“First, as shown in Table 2.1, the amount of time when value is actually being created (3 hours) is infinitesimal in relation to the…

— James P. Womack

When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we…

— Carlo Ratti

And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

— Jerry Garcia

Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.

— Carlo Ratti

“The quick and dirty formula is to add cost of materials plus cost of labor and then figure 25 percent of that to arrive…

— James Dillehay