“It's can you, Steve Wozniak, design the same computer - maybe it's a Varian 620i - can you design it on paper with fewer chips than last month? Can you design it with 79 chips instead of 80 chips? I had played this game so long that I had all these little tricks in my head that I can't even explain... Nothing was wasted; absolutely zero waste. I told this story recently to the Resource Recovery Association, recycling, and they loved to hear I didn't believe in waste.” BelieveLittlesLongI CanStoriesLastsGamesDesignMonthsWastePaperComputerResourcesTricksRecoveryZeroAssociationFewerChipsRecycling Author:Steve Wozniak
“Im mad keen on recycling because Im worried about the next generation and where all this waste were producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.” NextGenerationsWasteMadWorriedPlasticNext GenerationRecyclingEnvelopesContainers Author:Cherie Lunghi
“A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills.” PeopleFirstsMadeUseShowsAnimalWasteEnvironmentalProductiveExcessFeedingHierarchyStewardshipFormationReductionContributingRecyclingLandfillsMethaneFood Waste Author:Carol Browner
“Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.” KnowsIdeasEndsMightSocialFashionWasteNot SureAuntRecyclingAbominationOverpopulation Author:Jasper Fforde
“Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.” ProblemWasteLaborAddictionRecyclingGadgets Book:What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth Source: What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth
“If the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use the interlude of the present era to develop a new technology which is based on a circular flow of materials such that the only sources of man's provisions will be his own waste products.” IfsMenUseTechnologyMaterialsProductsSourceWasteFlowDevelopingErasNightmareProvisionExhaustionNew TechnologyRecycling Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it.” SelfProblemEconomyInvolvedWasteFaultsBottomGreedProducersLazyPassiveUnlimitedRecyclingSelf IndulgentSymbiosis Book:What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth Source: What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth