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Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.
You have to keep recycling yourself.
It breaks your heart when you throw something away, but it's what left that counts. It's like worrying about the bits of rock you have knocked off in order to make a beautiful statue. You've wasted half the rock, yeah, but it's the Venus di Milo!
To blithely discard the spent kernels of something that has ended is to discard the very resources that have painstakingly been harvested from that ending from which a spirited new beginning will be cultivated.
If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.
I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.
There are only two choices: keep it or chuck it. And if you're going to keep it, make sure to take care of it.
There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,
or enemies,
or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.
Recycling is what we do when we're out of options to avoid, repair, or reuse the product first. Firstly: Reduce. Don't buy what we don't need. Repair: Fix stuff that still has life in it. Reuse: Share. Then, only when you've exhausted those options, recycle.
Waste is criminal. I'll use the power I have to undo what Cansrel did. I'll use it to fight for the Dells.
Keep the things that add value to your life. If the item does not add value to your life, it is just clutter and needs to be cleared from your space.
We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.
Waste is unjustified, and especially the waste of time limited as that commodity is in our days of probation. One must live, not only exist; he must do, not merely be; he must grow, not just vegetate.
When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
When a man eats his words, that's recycling.
Nothing we can't handle, break it up and dismantle.
What we did not truly use, need, and love had to go. This would become our motto for decluttering.
It's not easy to get rid of unwanted things.
I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
If you do not waste, you do not want.Waste-- Syed Ather
Tough break-up? Trash stinks, which is why you toss it.
Not everything worth keeping needs to be useful
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.
Some things we pack away, stick in the back of the closet, never expect to see again - but we can't quite make ourselves discard them. Like
You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.
One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.
One can't go on anymore, she said, electronics seems so clean and yet it dirties, dirties tremendously, and it obliges you to leave traces of yourself everywhere as if you were shitting and peeing on yourself continuously: I want to leave nothing, my favorite key is the one that deletes.
He who hoards much loses much.
God help anyone who disobeys my recycling system. I have all the separated bins. I'm very adamant about it because I try to be a good citizen of the world, I really do. I even use eco-friendly cleaning products, but sometimes you just have to break open the disinfectant. Some jobs require it.
In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.
Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.
A simple pecking order has always characterized mankind's relationship to waste: The wealthy throw out what they do not want, the poor scavenge what they can, and whatever remains is left to rot.
Delete Never Means Delete in the Information Age.
If a dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste, then I am a huge recycler
Don't lose a treasure while looking for trash.
You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
How do you sort the treasure from the trash? When does something move from sentimental to disposable? And if you think you are ready to part with it, are you really? If you throw it away today, will you regret it tomorrow? Or will it be something you never think about again?
Waste is any human activity which absorbs resources but creates no value. - James P. Womak and Daniel T. Jones,
Oh! Old rubbish! Old letters, old clothes, old objects that one does not want to throw away. How well nature has understood that, every year, she must change her leaves, her flowers, her fruit and her vegetables, and make manure out of the mementos of her year!
I heard that women are attracted to bad boys, so every once in a while, I throw a recyclable into the regular garbage.
What you do not eliminate - you accumulate.
I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I charged, the easier it was for them to breathe freely once more.
Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions.
I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.
Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters.
Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.
You must write for the waste basket.
You can't throw just throw me away!
There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions.
I've been re-created by a designer who loves to recycle. My
The doctrine of the importance of hoards for stabilizing the objective exchange-value of money has gradually lost its adherents with the passing of time. Nowadays its supporters are few.
Save Our Planet Recycle Knowledge
Not everything needs to be recycled.
The crap and the trash of the world. Post-consumer human butt wipe that no one would ever go to the trouble to recycle.
I hate to spread rumours, but what else can one do with them?
The only things we keep permanently are those we give away,
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Does that body require disposal, sir?
That's SHIT!
How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
That once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.
Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.
To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.
One of the most necessary things when you're writing? The waste basket.
Again, keep everything.
You throw away the substance from which life is made of when you waste time
People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away.
Look at all that rubbish," she said, watching the electric van slowly whirr from bin to bin, little men in gloves removing it all.
"They're taking it away," I said.
"Where to?" she said. "It just gets moved around dearie, that's all.
What's gone is gone.
Sometimes if you talk trash, you end up taking out the garbage.
Waste is also not waste, it can be recycled
Decluttering tip: Ask yourself do I need this? How long has it been since I used this? Do I need so many?
To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.
Haste makes waste.
Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.
The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.
We live in an advanced capitalist society, after all. Waste is the name of the game, its greatest virtue. Politicians call it "refinements in domestic consumption." I call it meaningless waste.
New Rule: You don't need a paper shredder. I've seen your mail
it's not that interesting. What are you worried about, that the magazine from the auto club might fall into the wrong hands? I hate to break it to you 007, but the Victoria's Secret catalog isn't actually a secret.
There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten's prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.
If it gathers dust, give it away ...
Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.
The Three D's of Creating True Happiness For All ...
Declutter - Remove all unwanted items from your home,
Donate - to your local charity,
Deduct - Save money by claiming your donation on your tax return
Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
The first measure of any civilization is how it deals with its trash.
Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.
The worst waste, that of time.
How can you get rid of a book? That's like throwing away knowledge.
By handling each sentimental item and deciding what to discard, you process your past. If you just stow these things away in a drawer or cardboard box, before you realise it, your past will become a weight that holds you back and keeps you from living in the here and now. Pg.116-117
The more things I threw away, the more I found.
Well ... that's going in the trash. (I'm not referring to an enemy either).
I threw away the whole of my working history, my photograph albums, diaries and stage clothes. Shoving big, ugly discs on walls is a bit like rubbing people's faces in it, saying 'I am considerably richer than you.' It is completely unnecessary.
For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!
In between trash and treasure.
Nothing is wasted.
Marathon tidying produces a heap of garbage. At this stage, the one disaster that can wreak more havoc than an earthquake is the entrance of that recycling expert who goes by the alias of "mother.
Nobody likes to throw stuff away. It's just antithetical to our sense of being a person. But we're all habituated to that way of living today.
Waste is only waste if we waste it.
One should never begrudge deletions.