{"quotes":[{"text":"Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.","author":"Peter F. Hamilton","tags":["common-sense","recycling","society","waste"],"id":13355,"author_id":"Peter+F.+Hamilton"},{"text":"It was Sunday, and Mumma had gone next door with Lena and the little ones. Under the pepper tree in the yard Pa was sorting, counting, the empty bottles he would sell back: the bottles going clink clink as Pa stuck them in the sack. The fowls were fluffing in the dust and sun: that crook-neck white pullet Mumma said she would hit on the head if only she had the courage to; but she hadn't.","author":"Patrick White","tags":["bottles","children","fathers","fowls","mothers","recycling","sundays","trees"],"id":61689,"author_id":"Patrick+White"},{"text":"We were in recycling before recycling was cool.","author":"Anthony Pratt","tags":["recycling","before","were "],"id":64067,"author_id":"Anthony+Pratt"},{"text":"Do not throw me out. Please.","author":"Diane Samuels","tags":["arguments","begging","care","children","family","forgiveness","recycling"],"id":81814,"author_id":"Diane+Samuels"},{"text":"Take it all, all of it!' Greg cried out. 'These things here...I've been making them better, fixing them. It doesn't matter...They don't matter. I've been here before.' He paused to try to collect himself. 'It's my past, my present...These things--' He lifted a hand out to the objects around him. 'These things are me.' Now whispering, 'Can't you see me?","author":"Dayna S. Rubin","tags":["action-adventure","antiques","chicago","christian-louboutin-shoes","corporate-espionage","cubs","cyber-action-team","cybercrime","eco-friendly","fbi","greg","harley","hermes","jamaica","kitty","mystery","pea-pod","porsche","recycling","suspense-romance","tattoos","trump-towers","vintage-cars","weddings","wrigleyville","zamantha"],"id":98993,"author_id":"Dayna+S.+Rubin"},{"text":"Even if through simple living and rigorous recycling you stopped your own average Americans annual one ton of garbage production, your per capita share of the industrial waste produced in the US is still almost twenty-six tons. That's thirty-seven times as much waste as you were able to save by eliminating a full 100 percent of your personal waste. Industrialism itself is what has to stop.","author":"Derrick Jensen","tags":["anti-civilization","environment","green-movement","industrialism","recycling"],"id":101821,"author_id":"Derrick+Jensen"},{"text":"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.","author":"Neil LaBute","tags":["live","name","recycling "],"id":159723,"author_id":"Neil+LaBute"},{"text":"Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across a lifetime that rate means, on average, we are each on track to generate 102 tons of trash. Each of our bodies may occupy only one cemetery plot when we’re done with this world, but a single person’s 102-ton trash legacy will require the equivalent of 1,100 graves. Much of that refuse will outlast any grave marker, pharaoh’s pyramid or modern skyscraper: One of the few relics of our civilization guaranteed to be recognizable twenty thousand years from now is the potato chip bag.","author":"Edward Humes","tags":["ecology","environment","garbage","recycling","trash","waste"],"id":219185,"author_id":"Edward+Humes"},{"text":"Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.","author":"Erma Bombeck","tags":["boxes","cardboard","gifts","mothers","recycling"],"id":271618,"author_id":"Erma+Bombeck"},{"text":"[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at least in the West) to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We recycle old paper, we buy organic food, we install long-lasting light bulbs—whatever—just so we can be sure that we are doing something. We make our individual contribution like the soccer fan who supports his team in front of a TV screen at home, shouting and jumping from his seat, in the belief that this will somehow influence the game's outcome.","author":"Slavoj Žižek","tags":["2010","2010-eruptions-eyjafjallajokul","2010-fifa-world-cup","catastrophe","environment","environmentalism","fatalism","fate","football","global-warming","guilt","impotence","organic-food","paper-recycling","reassurance","recycling","television"],"id":273318,"author_id":"Slavoj+%C5%BDi%C5%BEek"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}