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Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem. -- Barry Commoner
The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids. -- Antonio Banderas
If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling. -- Ed Begley, Jr.
That's really eco-friendly of you," Vee told Marcie. "Recycling Nora's old trash. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers want. -- Jerry Greenfield
Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse. -- Issey Miyake
Recycling is an area where jobs could be created at low cost. Green collar workers. That's not very sexy. -- Geoff Mulgan
But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights. -- Garrett Hardin
We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling. -- Neil LaBute
Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material. -- Ed Pastor
Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified. -- Ted Danson
Recycling is what we do when we're out of options to avoid, repair, or reuse the product first. Firstly: Reduce. Don't buy what we don't need. Repair: Fix stuff that still has life in it. Reuse: Share. Then, only when you've exhausted those options, recycle. -- Annie Leonard
In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010. -- Michael E. Mann
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled. -- Jesse Jackson
So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle. -- Dean Stockwell
Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management. -- William Rathje
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. -- Ellen Goodman
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out. -- Martina Navratilova
We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil. -- Ted Danson
When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling. -- Barbara Amiel
We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good, in the hands of those who use them properly. -- Clement of Alexandria
"Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference toward valuable natural resources, but also a serious economic and public health problem. -- Jimmy Carter
One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips. People will then be literally kissing ass. -- Dave Barry
The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money. -- Rick Wright
Widely spaced earth-sheltered towns offer sweeping views over the plains. High-speed trains link the communities. Food is grown in the region. Bikeways are everywhere. Nonpolluting hydrogen powers all vehicles. Sunlight and wind generate the hydrogen. Note the earth-covered bridges, the continuous window bands, the wind machines across the farmlands. In this new America, everything is reused, recycled, conserved. -- Malcolm Wells
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I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something. -- Mike Quigley
My mom is the recycling Nazi, and I always bring a bag to the grocery store. -- Jane Levy
If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it. -- Bill Nye
During holiday parties I end up recycling a lot of my cocktail dresses and just wearing a layering piece, like a blazer and tights, with it. -- Lauren Conrad
The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent. -- Jesse Jackson
It's all about fair trade, and helping people eating locally grown stuff. We're recycling everything. We're trying to tour in the most conscious way possible, environmentally and socially. -- Andrew Dost
Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy. -- Blythe Danner
My company in the U.S., Pratt Industries U.S.A., has grown from scratch to become a billion-dollar business based on recycling, as well as the largest Australian-owned employer of U.S. citizens. -- Anthony Pratt
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 stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can. -- Cherie Lunghi
Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a 'smart' trash bin that aims to revolutionize the recycling process. -- Evgeny Morozov
The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, they can take an unwanted item of clothing and pop it in the recycling bin in their M&S store for Oxfam. -- Joanna Lumley
In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It's environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill. -- Tristram Stuart
In Los Angeles, I drive a hybrid and live in a very simple home. Anything you do from carrying a canteen of water to starting a recycling program in your office makes a difference. Reusing what you already have has always been green - from clothes to boxes to glass jars from the supermarket. -- Rachel Boston
Some makeup companies have really good recycling policies, and it's worth finding out whether your favourites are among them. With MAC, for instance, you can take any of your old makeup containers into its shops, and the sweetest deal is that, once you've racked up six containers, you get a free lipstick or lip gloss. -- Beth Ditto
People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.' -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage. -- Fiona Apple
You have to keep recycling yourself. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen. -- James Van Der Beek
When a man eats his words, that's recycling. -- Frank A. Clark
Drinking your own blood is the paradigm of recycling. -- Gary Busey
I'm not really very funny, I just keep recycling jokes. -- Reese Roper
I wish for recycling to become a major industrial agriculture. -- Tishuan Scott
In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling. -- Bonnie Wright
Are you recycling? Are you!? You just killed a polar bear! YOU! -- Russell Howard
There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257) -- Keith Ablow
Reusing and recycling our materials is the most important thing we can do. -- Nikki Reed
My father was in the paper recycling business back before they called it recycling. -- Daniel Keyes
It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling. -- Susan Sontag
Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling. -- Peter F. Hamilton
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Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories. -- Jean-Dominique Bauby
My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling. -- John McCarthy
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced. -- Barry Commoner
Thereâ??s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools. -- Dennis Prager
I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth. -- Rainn Wilson
One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods. -- Fay Weldon
Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again. -- Ruth Ann Minner
The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star. -- Wes Jackson
Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling. -- Susan Sontag
The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions. -- John Henry Holland
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O love, please give me a passionate red recycling bin. I will put my desire in it. I don't ever want to throw love away. -- Derrick Williams
I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea. -- Paul Lansky
I carry a knife with me so I can cut images out of cardboard boxes. I'm always cutting cardboard. Especially every Thursday, which is recycling day. -- Micah Lexier
I don't want to repeat myself. I hate the idea of coasting and of recycling the same ideas. Then, you're just subject to the law of diminishing returns. -- Neil Cross
John McCain is now openly endorsing the policies of the Bush-Cheney White House and promising to actually continue the same policies over again? Hey, I believe in recycling but that's ridiculous. -- Al Gore
Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichÃ©s about noble womanhood. -- Camille Paglia
I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now I'm Sam Malone the editor. I'm Sam Malone the billionaire. -- Ted Danson
Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out -- Martina Navratilova
Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage. -- Vik Muniz
Today is Earth Day. The way I see it, as humans the very least we can do is recycle. A lot of recycling is going on this year. For example, Bushes and Clintons. -- David Letterman
You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation. -- Harold Prince
The announcement that there is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen television series hasn't caused me to drastically alter my opinions. Now it seems they are recycling things that have already proven not to work. -- Alan Moore
Consider the willful scorching of the earth, over-fishing, wasteful hunting, excessive and dangerous recycling of resources, and other similar "injustices" against the ways of nature share in the responsibility for this ecological spiraling down. -- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
Given the current state of our finances, we could sure use a quarter of a trillion dollars a year recycling through the U.S. economy rather than through the economies of Iran, Russia, and Venezuela. -- T. Boone Pickens
There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime. -- Eric Schmidt

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