Issey Miyake 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.

Not everything needs to be recycled.

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

Nothing is wasted.

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

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.

Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.

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

I was brought up to reuse things.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.

Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.

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

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

I'm a recycling obsessive.

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

If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

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

I'm an environmentalist; I recycle.

We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.

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.

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

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

When we unwrap presents, I tend to sit there with a bin liner trying to collect up the wrapping paper and thinking about which pieces I can reuse and which I will recycle.

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.