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We don't need more recycling, we need a completely different system of closed-loop manufacturing, and no matter how many cans I crush, my personal actions at the consumer level are of very little importance in getting us there.

Not everything needs to be recycled.

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

In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that goes into people's garbage cans - actually gets recycled. If you go to a place like South Korea, the exact reverse is the case. It's about 3 percent that doesn't get recycled.

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

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

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.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

I really think there are spirits in a place that you have to accommodate.

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.