Commodity Quote by Tom Szaky

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

"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

“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 is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.

— Alex Steffen

Waste is only waste if we waste it.

— will.i.am

“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

There is no such thing as waste. It is just a question of whether we know how to use something or not.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

— Mason Cooley

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

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

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