Brazil Quote by Vik Muniz

Unmanageable waste has turned into a worldwide crisis. No matter how much local authorities do, no matter the level of public cooperation, no matter…

— Rohini Nilekani

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

— John Steinbeck

Brazil is a dump.

— Colby Covington

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

— Carlo Ratti

When I get sad about sanitation, I think of Japan, because Japan 70 years ago was a nation of people who used pit latrines…

— Suman Rai

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

In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that goes into people's garbage cans -…

— Tristram Stuart

Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they…

— Bette Midler

“Fortunately, getting hold of people’s garbage was a cinch. Indian detectives were much luckier than their counterparts in, say, America, who were forever rooting…

— Tarquin Hall

We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.

— Jaime Lerner

"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

I found out there is a production paradise in Brazil. I was able to make my second collection for less money but without sacrificing…

— Antonio Brown