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Garbage Quotes

On waste, recycling, and turning trash into talk.

These garbage quotes range from a serious call to reduce national paper waste to a wry observation about wealthy neighborhoods that seem to package their own excess as television content, a very Environmental concern given a satirical twist.

In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

Quotes by Woody Allen

In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.

Quotes by Woody Allen

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

Quotes by Wendell H. Ford

Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.

Quotes by Vik Muniz

Away Quotes

I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

Quotes by Tom Perrotta

The waste products in Earth's crust are also the human in this expanded, spectral sense. One's garbage doesn't go 'away' - it just goes somewhere else.

Quotes by Timothy Morton

The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.

Quotes by Steven Berkoff

If you put out garbage, you turn people into garbage.

Quotes by Steven Berkoff

I'm wearing a garbage bag. I was put on my own worst-dressed list.

Quotes by Steven Cojocaru

Earth Quotes

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

Quotes by Rory Bremner

Someone has to take the garbage out, someone has to cook the food, and someone has to clean the dishes. I want to do all of that.

Quotes by Paula Creamer

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

Quotes by Pat Buchanan

The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.

Quotes by Nick Tosches

I'm a guy that, when there's something rolling out there, the predetermined rotations might go right in the garbage can.

Quotes by Nick Nurse

Environmental Quotes

I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.

Quotes by Nancy Sinatra

Twice a week, a truck comes near my house, and two guys get out and pick up the garbage. This will disappear. There will still be a truck coming, but it will be driven autonomously, and the garbage will be...

Quotes by Moshe Vardi

You know, why don't you take him off all this stuff you have him hopped up on, all this garbage that we're feeding him, all this sugar and caffeine, and then see what happens?

Quotes by Morgan Spurlock

Tracked a raccoon one time in the snow. I was in the neighborhood and I was just curious where this raccoon lived. There's some fresh raccoon tracks. He'd been digging at somebody's garbage.

Quotes by Mike Leach

In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.

Quotes by Michael E. Mann

First Quotes

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

Quotes by Michael Caine

Frequently Asked Questions

What angle do these quotes take on garbage?
These quotes mostly use garbage to make a point about waste and culture—a literal trash problem, and a joking comparison between reality television and things people would normally throw away.
Is there a quote about recycling?
Yes, one quote points out that a country's high recycling rate can be tied to poverty, since people there rely on sorting through landfill waste to get by.
What does a quote say about reducing waste at the source?
One quote calls for tackling a growing garbage problem by producing less of it in the first place, especially paper waste.
Is there a joke about reality TV in here?
Yes, a couple of quotes make the same joke from different angles, suggesting that in certain places, garbage gets turned into television programming instead of being thrown out.
Where can I find more quotes about the environment generally?
The Environmental quotes page expands on this theme of waste and ecology.

A more sobering line comes from a major landfill where people survive by sorting through what others throw away, a stark contrast to the earlier jokes. Explore our Away and Earth collections for related themes.