Approach Quote by William Rathje

Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

— William Rathje

“There is a big difference between eliminating waste and not creating it in the first place.”

— Alan Shalloway

Reducing the damage from waste might require expanding the traditional definition of waste - not just as old-fashioned garbage, but as a result of…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

You should concentrate on the segregation of waste, especially kitchen waste. Only after segregation the waste becomes useful and it can be recycled.

— Geeta Phogat

We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage of nuclear…

— Paul Hawken

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

— Felix Dennis

"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 learned in America a long time ago, the three R's, the principle of three R's - reuse, reduce, recycle. And as I say…

— Wangari Maathai

Waste is only waste if we waste it.

— will.i.am

“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

To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be…

— David Korten

The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by…

— Ellen MacArthur