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Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.

Where I grew up in Vermont, there is no municipal garbage removal. You have to bring your trash to the dump every weekend. Something like three hours on Saturday morning, the entire town goes in. It is actually a very efficient place to do politics. I would go to the garbage dump, get petitions signed, give out literature, talk to voters.

Not everything needs to be recycled.

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.

God help anyone who disobeys my recycling system. I have all the separated bins. I'm very adamant about it because I try to be a good citizen of the world, I really do. I even use eco-friendly cleaning products, but sometimes you just have to break open the disinfectant. Some jobs require it.

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.

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

I'm an environmentalist; I recycle.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.