Cooperation Quote by Rohini Nilekani

For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across--hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management,…

— Rick Riordan

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

— John Steinbeck

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we…

— Neil LaBute

The kind of industrial wasteland that you see in so much of Europe has a tremendous poignancy to me, especially when it's run down…

— Johann Johannsson

Even when we think or talk about recycling, lots of recyclable stuff ends up getting incinerated or in landfills and leaving many municipalities, diversion…

— Majora Carter

"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

“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

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

— Felix Dennis

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

Im mad keen on recycling because Im worried about the next generation and where all this waste were producing is going. It has to…

— Cherie Lunghi

I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to…

— Cherie Lunghi

The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet's capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is, can only…

— Pope Francis