Sheherazade Goldsmith Quotes

Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.

I was brought up to reuse things.

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

I'm a leftover junkie.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

There is no such thing as waste. It is just a question of whether we know how to use something or not.

I always grew up watching things transform, and a lot of that was what we would call trash.

I mean, if cans can be recycled, why not spirits?

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

My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

What humans aren't good at is trying to consume less, to consume less plastic, to not be lazy.

We need to throw away less, recycle a lot more and turn much of the rest into energy.

Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them.

Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.

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.

It makes a big difference to recycle. It makes a big difference to use recycled products. It makes a big difference to reuse things, to not use the paper cup - and each time you do, that's a victory.

Nothing is wasted.

Not everything needs to be recycled.

The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.

Nobody likes to throw stuff away. It's just antithetical to our sense of being a person. But we're all habituated to that way of living today.

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

There is no 'recycle too much.' That's an oxymoron.

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 those words, there are so many things individually we can do to reduce - we don't need to consume as much as we are consuming. Reduce. And by reusing, we can reuse a lot of things we just throw into the dumpsite. And reduce the production. The more we reuse, the more we can reduce.

Consuming less means throwing away less, while reusing things actually helps to save the planet as well as the pennies.