Bruce Sterling Quotes

Get a composter and let nature breakdown your compostable trash and use the remains as mulch for your plants.

Not everything needs to be recycled.

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

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

In theory, recycling poop is the perfect solution to the one truly unavoidable byproduct of human civilization.

I'm a trash can. I eat whatever makes me happy.

A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste.

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!

After all, does it make sense to be chucking things like glass, paper, cardboard, wood, metals, plastics, and food waste into holes in the ground? No, it doesn't; especially when someone will pay you good money to take them off your hands or, in the case of wood and food waste, when you can turn them into renewable energy.

You should concentrate on the segregation of waste, especially kitchen waste. Only after segregation the waste becomes useful and it can be recycled.

The planet is beautiful.

I compost at home. I'm always taking old banana peels, eggshells, coffee beans, or whatever it is, and putting them in a compost bin and then using it in my backyard.

Like most Montanans, I get pretty upset when I hear about waste.

For me, green is more about cycling than recycling.

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

I'm a recycling obsessive.

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

The climate change is real today, but also the solutions that we have available to us that are cost-effective and beneficial to everyone are at our disposal now.

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system.

You have to keep recycling yourself.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.