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Just plain bullshit. Penn & Teller Bullshit! s2e5: Recycling, Showtime 2004
It just seems like the thing to do. ibid.
Does it save energy? No … Sorting, storing and cleaning ... It takes more energy to recycle a plastic bottle than to make a new one. ibid.
It costs you eight billion dollars a year. ibid.
Cans ... There is real money in aluminium. ibid.
Recycling paper is bad for the environment. Recycling is a manufacturing process. ibid.
Americans make about 200 million tons of rubbish a year. ibid.
We have three times more trees today than we did in 1920. ibid.
It is more expensive to recycle than it is to landfill. Professor Daniel Benjamin
What kind of a job is this anyway? Garbage, that’s all we handle – garbage. On Dangerous Ground 1952 starring Robert Ryan & Ida Lupino & Ward Bond & Charles Kemper & Anthony Ross & Ed Begley & Ian Wolfe & Sumner Williams & Gus Schilling et al, director Nicholas Ray
Big money in garbage. I highly recommend it. Kill the Irishman 2011 starring Ray Stevenson & Val Kilmer & Christopher Walken & Linda Cardellini & Marcus Thomas & Vinnie Jones & Tony Lo Bianco & Paul Sorvino & Laura Ramsey & Mike Starr & Bob Gunton et al, director Jonathan Hensleigh
Your technology would throw the waste export industry into chaos. Before long I would be obsolete. Star Trek: Voyager s5e1: Night, Malon
Target their cargo hold. Time to take out the garbage. ibid. Janeway on bridge
Where there’s muck there’s brass. Late 17th century proverb
Keep Britain Tidy. Information campaign from 1950s
The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a lot of old rubbish. Jonathan Dimbleby
Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught. A N Wilson
American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash – all of them – surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. John Keats
Nature is a good scavenger. She soon gets rid of her rubbish. Alfred Adler
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. Eric Hoffer
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. George Norman Douglas
It’s through the leftovers of the Roman world … that we can see how the Roman empire works. Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome II, BBC 2016
Beneath my feet now is fifty year’s worth of New Yorkers’ rubbish. New York: America’s Busiest City II, BBC 2016
Vik Muniz incorporates everyday objects into his photographic process to create witty, bold and often deceiving images. Waste Land, caption, 2010
These are probably the roughest people you can think of. They’re all drug addicts. It’s like the end of the line. Check out the geography of this thing. It’s like the end of the line. It’s where everything not good goes, including the people. ibid. Vik
We have to think about the future because I don’t want my son to be a picker. Although if he is, I’d be very proud … But I’d rather he be a lawyer to represent the pickers, you know. ibid. Zumbi
I need something. I crave speed in my love. Carts of Darkness, 2008
Recently, I discovered a group of outsiders living in my neighbourhood making these hills their own. No-one else seems to see them. ibid.
My brother’s got a cartful of empties. ibid.
I used to notice broken down shopping carts randomly discarded at the side of the road. And always wondered why they were left there. ibid.
I live in a bush. Collect cans. ibid.
On a good day for me I make $70. ibid.
The first thing tourists see is that thing over there. The Illegal Trash Volcano Burning in Kalymnos, bar owner, Vice TV 2015
The atmosphere is utterly asphyxiating. ibid. resident
Greece has not found a way to properly handle its rubbish. The European Court has imposed heavy fines on illegal landfills. ibid. reporter
Kalymnos: rubbish burning in the island’s illegal landfill. ibid.
So one out of every three sites that receives rubbish is illegal. ibid.
We need the assistance of the central government. ibid. mayor
Planned obsolescence produces a constant stream of waste which is shipped to third-world countries. The Lightbulb Conspiracy, 2010
Litter is a big problem. An increasing number of fines are being issued on behalf of councils – it’s causing real anger. Many of the fines are being handed out by private companies who often split the taking with the local authority. There are millions to be made. Panorama: Inside the Litter Police, BBC 2017
The crime that ruins the places we love. There are more than a million incidents of fly-tipping a year in the UK. We show how ordinary people are fighting back. We investigate how licensed waste collectors are cashing in. Welcome to rubbish-dump Britain. Panorama: Rubbish Dump Britain, BBC 2021
More than half the councils in England didn’t prosecute a single fly-tipper. ibid.
How much do you know about what happens to the plastic in your cupboards? There’s a good chance you would have bought stuff with this logo on it. Terracycle, the company behind it, says it can recycle anything. But in the US the company has been accused of greenwashing. Panorama: Recycling: Where Does My Rubbish Go? BBC 2022
The rubbish has been mixing with the oil to create toxic waste. Adnan Sarwar, Journey in the Danger Zone: Iraq, BBC 2018
This is not a natural hill. It’s made from rubbish. It’s a landfill site. Spread across the UK are more than twenty thousand like it and they’re growing. Each year we bury over twelve million tons of household waste. The Secret Life of Landfill: A Rubbish History, BBC 2018
There’s constant risk of a methane explosion or fire on a landfill site. ibid.