Minimal Waste Quotes

Waste of resources is a mortal sin at IKEA.

I can never waste water. If I cannot drink it I will use it to water the plants and I will never waste food. If it is inedible it goes on the compost heap.

Move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy.

Some days I'm very lazy, and some days I'm more inspired. I've got things I've had since I was fifteen - I don't throw anything away. I prefer to give it to a friend so I can wear it again...The way I dress doesn't necessarily have to do with fashion, or what is current, or what is in right now, it's more about rediscovering things.

If you're going to kill the animal it seems only polite to use the whole thing.

When I buy something, I do so with the intention of keeping it forever.

Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.

The idea of stuff just hanging in my closet and not being used - there's a little bit of the African in me that gets bothered by that [somewhat].

A writer wastes nothing.

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.

My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.

The Chinese use every spare bit of an animal: cow lungs, pig ears, chicken feet, duck blood.

We should make things that people don't want to throw away.

Sensible people find nothing useless.

Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.