43  Recycling Quotes

1. If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be restricted, designed or removed from production. Pete Seeger
   Inspirational Poems




2. The potential to protect our soil and water and restore nutrition to our food through learning to compost and working with our neighbors to recycle food and yard wastes can inspire hope in a time when threats to the health of our planet and the public loom large. Grace Gershuny, from The Rodale Book of Composting
   Poems About Hope




3. "And don't forget to recycle to help save resources and reduce space in landfills and buy recycled products as often as possible to encourage recycling." Cynthia Perkins, M.Ed., Ten Quick Tips to Save the Planet and Your Health
   Poems of Encouragement





4. The Earth is more important than money, and if we want our children to have a clean place to live, we need to do our part now. We can't buy our children a new planet. Catherine Norton
   Earth Day Quotes




5. We compost and use it in our gardens, which is recycling waste, why can't we do that in other areas of our lives? Kate Summers
   Garden Poems




6. If we implement recycle, we are allowing things to be double. We can make different things rather than just being trash to bring. Catherine Pulsifer, The Three R's
   Poems About Earth Day




7. Recycling can prove very beneficial for your community and the environment. Sean Parker, Recycle
   Community Quotes




8. "This we know: the Earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the Earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." Chief Seattle
   Poems about Life




9. There are many ways to show kindness to others, why not show kindness to our planet by recycling rather than throwing away. Catherine Pulsifer
   Kindness Poems




10. "It´s an illusion that the solution to pollution is dilution!" Author Unknown
    Pollution Quotes





11. "By treating waste as a resource, the reader will save money and better the environment." Lillian and Dave Brummet, The Beginnings of the Environmental Book on Everyone's Lips
    Environment Quotes




12. "Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology." William Irwin Thompson
    Forest Quotes  




13. To leave a legacy for your children or grandchildren is not always money but something even more precious. It is to leave the Earth and its beauty, its vitality, and its wholesomeness. Byron R. Pulsifer
    Children Quotes




14. Recycling is an impressively pure form of altruism, a widespread commitment to the greater good. Frank Ackerman, Why Do We Recycle?
    Lifestyle Quotes




15. .... recycling your scraps for a new look is much easier on the budget than buying new. Adrianne Surian, DIY T-Shirt Crafts
    Creativity Quotes




16. Never refrain from every opportunity to declare with a strong conviction that out throw away societal thinking does not only make manufacturer's wealthy, but it contributes to polluting a world soon to be overrun with the discards of so-called progress. Rosy Lee Anderson
    Opportunity Quotes  





17. To exchange clutter by offering items no longer needed to others who need them makes a world less susceptible to compounding an already cluttered world. Kate Summers
    Helping Others Quotes  




18. "Most of us are familiar with recycle and reusing, but how often do we think of the third R - REDUCE? 'Reduce' is probably the most important of the three Rs because, if we reduced, it would limit the need to recycle and reuse." Catherine Pulsifer
    Positive Quotes 




19. Recycling food means taking leftovers, which are meals you have already cooked and adding ingredients to them to turn them into brand new meals. Nancy L. Benton, Leftover Meals – How To Recycle Food
    Innovation Quotes




20. Almost everyone can be less wasteful, by throwing less stuff away while it's still useful - and even by buying less to. Susan Meredith, Why Should I Recycle?
    Poems




21. To recycle household not only helps the environment by reducing the amount of garbage we produce, but it also means that you can get more out of each item. Alex Gaston, How To Recycle Tea Bags Or Coffee
    Money Quotes




22. "Just as we cannot blame others for destroying the environment, so we cannot look to others to protect the environment. Responsibility for both begins at home." Paul Griss, The Daily Planet
    Blame Quotes




23. "We may recycle newspapers and glass and take proper satisfaction for doing so, but we remain caught in a web of spiritual assumptions about success and consumption, progress and waste that effectively undermine and trivialize our efforts to escape." William H. Becker
    Thought Provoking Quotes 




24. "Can implementing the three R's - reduce, recycle, reuse, save you money? If you only implemented the three R's in your kitchen, you would save money." Catherine Pulsifer
    Saving Money Quotes  




25. "There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use." Mother Teresa
    Anger Quotes 





26. "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without." Proverb
    Proverbs




27. "You can help keep garbage out of landfills by using things again and again." Margie Burton
    Thrift Quotes  




28. Glass, like aluminum, is readily recyclable by simply melting waste glass into new forms, and the rationale for the procedure is, likewise, for saving energy costs. Rodge Daniel, How to Recycle Reduce & Reuse to Save our 'Environment
    Energy Quotes




29. If everyone in the USA recycled just one aluminum can, 295 millionn new aluminum cans could be made. Aubre Andrus, 101 small Ways to Change The World
    Make A Difference Quotes




30. "Recycling aged wireless equipment is a sensible alternative. Valuable materials can be recovered from used wireless devices in a number of different ways." Sharon Housley, Recycle Cell Phones
    Sustainability Quotes  




31. "Waste is a terrible thing to mind - Recycle ." Bumper Sticker
    Cute Quotes




32. "We must learn to be less wasteful and to develop an environmental ethic that includes a respect for all other species." Paul Griss, The Daily Planet
    Frugal Living Quotes 




33. "We were surprised at the little things we could all do to reduce our greenhouse gases by one-tonne. We all could make more of a difference when it comes to greenhouse gases." Catherine Pulsifer, The One-Tonne Challenge
    Positive Quotes About Change





34. If you care about the environment and how it will affect mankind, then recycling shouldn't take a second thought. Jeffrey Sanderson
    Thoughtful Quotes  




35. Recycling conserves natural resources, trims manufacters; energy costs and reduces air and water pollution. Michael A. Fuoco
    Conservation Quotes




36. Glass is one of the most successful materials to reuse because if's 100 percent recyclable. Nanette Holland
    Success Quotes




37. "No matter how you look at it, scooping garbage into an oven and setting it afire is an equally primitive alternative to digging a hole in the ground and burying it. The former contaminates air; the latter, groundwater." Sandra Steingraber
    Be An Example Quotes




38. Change the way you think about ‘keeping up with the Jones’. Learn to appreciate the benefits of being less materialistic. Jeff Kinder, How to Recycle and other money-saving tips
    Appreciation Quotes




39. "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
    Solutions Quotes




40. Recycling was a common practice before the industrial revolution. Things were not mass produced. It was economically sound (cheaper) to reuse what you had. S.A. Peterson, Recycling Rules
    Life Journey Quotes




41. "The EPA estimates that of over 20 million personal computers discarded in 1998, only 13% were reused or recycled. Of those that were recycled, over 112 million pounds of valuable materials were recovered including steel, glass, plastic and precious metals." Donna Schwartz Mills, It's Easy to Be Green
    Overwhelmed Quotes





42. "Each individual contribution to the problem may be minimal, but the combined activities of our neighbours, our community and citizens across the country have an enormous effect." Paul Griss, The Daily Planet
    Problem Quotes




43. "If 25 years ago I had said that the majority of Canadians would be drinking bottled water today, you would have laughed. If I were to say now that we may have to breathe bottled air in 25 years if we don’t fundamentally change the way our society works, would you laugh? And if we can't breathe the air, does it really matter whether the government of the day is right or left?" Jim Harris, Green Party
    Deep Quotes About Life