Top 158 Recycling Quotes & Sayings

Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

There's a recycling mentality about my work.

Recycling isn't going to save the world, but being conscious of it and your surroundings can.

In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.

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.

Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers want.

You have to keep recycling yourself.

Recycling more plastics can help local businesses and expand jobs while supporting the goals of sustainability.

Recycling is an area where jobs could be created at low cost. Green collar workers. That's not very sexy.

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.

I'm a recycling obsessive.

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

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.

The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth.

Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future.

I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.

Are you recycling? Are you!? You just killed a polar bear! YOU!

In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.

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.

In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a different kind of recycling. Moviemakers give movies of the past an authority that those movies didn't have; they inflate images that may never have compelled belief, images that were no more than shorthand gestures and they use them not as larger-than-life jokes but as altars.

My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.

Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are designed for - a complicated and messy conversion, and one that itself expends energy and resources. Very few objects of modern consumption were designed with recycling in mind. If the process is truly to save money and materials, products must be designed from the very beginning to be recycled or even "upcycled" - a term we use to describe the return to industrial systems of materials with improved, rather than degraded, quality.

Recycling helps make people feel involved, and in some cases can be useful. Although you've got to do careful life history studies of what you're recycling. If all you're doing is recycling - if you've got three automobiles, and 10 children, and a 7,000-square-foot dot-com palace and second home up in the mountains that has to be heated - the recycling isn't making much difference.

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

I wish for recycling to become a major industrial agriculture.

If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.

Drinking your own blood is the paradigm of recycling.

I'm not really very funny, I just keep recycling jokes.

One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.

Recycling old buildings to show art is very important.

For me, green is more about cycling than recycling.

We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.

There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)

That's really eco-friendly of you," Vee told Marcie. "Recycling Nora's old trash.

The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.

I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.

It's my third boy in less than three years so there wasn't a lot to do. Hand-me-downs from my other children. I'm recycling so it was a very easy thing.

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.

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.

My father was in the paper recycling business back before they called it recycling.

We were in recycling before recycling was cool.

I hate recycling. I don't think it exists. I think they've made it up to give people jobs. They deliver these stupid little Tupperware boxes and tell me, 'You're not using your recycling box!' Who are they? They're not the police.

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

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.

When a man eats his words, that's recycling.

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.

I'm adamant about recycling in my house, and I'm always making sure to turn off the lights.

My mom is the recycling Nazi, and I always bring a bag to the grocery store.

A Smart City cannot be imagined without proper recycling.

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.

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.

The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.

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.

Reusing and recycling our materials is the most important thing we can do.

The kids are always so passionate. I feel like they are our protectors. They care so much about recycling and climate change.