Solid Waste Quotes:

"Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference toward valuable natural resources, but also a serious economic and public health problem.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Attitude, Mountain, Growing, Solid Waste, Leftovers

Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management.

- William Rathje

topic: Waste, Faces, Management, Solid Waste

The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star.

- Mike Mullane

topic: Stars, Fall, Giving, Solid Waste

NASA's training philosophy is "no surprises." So what they did is put a simulator on Earth where it looks exactly the same as a shuttle toilet and they put a camera down in the bottom of the opening for solid-waste collection, with a light that basically illuminates your asshole.

- Mike Mullane

topic: Philosophy, Light, Training, Solid Waste

The opening for solid waste is very small [in the space ship]. It's not toilet-bowl size. And aim is critical. To be honest with you, you don't know where your ***** is pointing within a small circumference.

- Mike Mullane

topic: Space, Toilets, Waste, Solid Waste

Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver them by truck. They're the biggest problem with our solid-waste disposal. And the news you get is a day old. You can get it off the Internet instantaneously for a fraction of the cost.

- Ted Turner

topic: Crazy, Communication, Cost, Solid Waste, Waste Disposal