William Rathje Quotes

• 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.

  William Rathje

  Book, Cake, Phoenix

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• Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

  William Rathje

  Nature, Medicine, Environmental

  "The Atlantic Monthly" Magazine, December 1989.

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

  William Rathje

  Faces, Waste, Management

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