12 Movie Quotes about Recycling (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 2, 2025

Memorable quotes about recycling, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Amazing! Behind that impeccable white suit beats a heart... of recyclable plastic!

Ernest Borgnine as Dominic Santini in Airwolf (1984)

2 Instead of being thrown away, they're collected. Refurbished. He calls it rebicycling. Something like that.

Tom Hanks as The Polar Express Conductor in The Polar Express

3 See how I transformed this old rat into a most delightful hat.

Chris Sarandon as Jack Skellington Speaking in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

4 Holy smokes. He's cooking our garbage.

Macaulay Culkin as Miles Russell in Uncle Buck (1989)

5 No, not true! I recycle!

Martin Mull in Jingle All the Way (1996)

6 In the jungle, nothing goes to waste, nature recycles everything.

Robert Kerman as Professor Harold Monroe in Cannibal Holocaust

7 Now, these good white folks are out here trying to recycle all of their glasses, plastics and aluminum. And you bitches putting all the _ in the dumpsters. You got to recycle.

Jada Pinkett as Stony in Set It Off (1996)

8 Hey, folks! How you doing? You're gonna love this neighborhood. Every single house here recycles.

Will Ferrell as Brennan Huff in Step Brothers (2008)

9 Why the hell you're doing this? There's a reason we have bins labeled Recycle!

Jeff Goldblum as David Levinson in Independence Day (1996)

10 It's reducing itself every time it recycles, so eventually it's gonna disappear