Landfill Quotes

I recycle because I don't like the idea of my trash just going into a landfill and being buried and staying forever.

We both like the older houses and old materials, and we hate to see them go to the landfill. We thought we'd give this a try.

There's no comparison. At the largest landfill in the state, they process a million tons (of garbage) a year.

Over 80 percent of all construction waste was sent to a recycling facility instead of a landfill.

Of the amount of garbage that goes into the landfill, nearly 50 percent of that is paper. It's insane.

We're trying to save property tax dollars by doing the blue bag program. With less garbage going into the landfill, the county would be billed less. That's how we'd really be getting the savings.

We're convinced it's not a matter of if -- the landfill will leak at some point of time. We'll pass the problem off to a later generation. It will be a very expensive task to address.

The benefits (of recycling) are obvious. You're not using up space in the landfill. You're putting a natural product back into a compost that can be used in your garden.

Up until recently, the state of California really wasn't doing anything about [recycling of monitors]. The landfill issues along with our reputation as a company were drivers for me.

They're building a large burn or wall at the bottom of the landfill to make sure the waste stays in place.

The blue bag program helps the recycling numbers here at the landfill. We need to be above 25 percent, and the state's goal is 50 percent.

The landfill can serve as school of bad habits to teach bears to associate people with food.

It?s a good alternative to just throwing your Christmas tree in the trash. In a landfill, they just bury it. That?s an anaerobic environment and, without oxygen, your tree could take a couple hundred years to decompose. This way, it gets put to good use right away.

We try to recycle those components because they contain toxic materials that we don't want in the landfill.

The electronic recycling event is important because it will divert the electronics from going to the landfill. Even though you can come out and drop them off at the transfer station, this will be convenient for residents while they are out shopping and returning and finishing up Christmas.

At this point, the outhaul is a temporary activity giving us some breathing room to accomplish the central landfill expansion.

A heart that's full up like a landfill and a job that slowly kills you.

Something will happen. We're not going to delay the ban. It just keeps piling up in the landfill. We're going to go forward with this issue.

It's good to recycle them to help the environment instead of throwing them into a landfill. They will never go away there.

Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.

Our landfill provides a clean and affordable source of alternative energy. Waste Management is proud to operate a facility that will actively help produce green energy and contribute to the health of the environment. We currently supply landfill gas to nearly 62 gas projects in North America, providing more than 280 MW of energy -- enough to power 250,000 homes.

And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.

I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.

I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.

I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.