The "green" policy

There has been a great deal on global warming recently in light of the adverse weather conditions that are currently running across the planet. There are storms raging in america, droughts in australia and there were the severe storms last week here in the UK and threats of arctic blasts this week. Last week also saw news of islands that had appeared in the arctic poles which appeared due to global warming. So we have to ask ourselves, “are we doing enough?”. As a country we could be doing a massive amount more but there are a number of recycling schemes by local councils which are helping to make this possible and while they are sometimes complicated they are helping to get us doing more.  There is still much more that can be done to help tackle this problem that will affect everyone in the end. One thing maybe someone reading this may be able to answer, as I know my good friends from the NHS read this site, is “why does the Queens Medical Centre not have any recycling facilities?”. I asked this question this evening to some of the nurses and they couldn’t answer but one of them told me that they took theres home. This defies all logic to me as there are around 5,000 people who work at this hospital as well as I would say in excess of a 1,000 visitors and outpatients each day all throwing recyclable rubbish in the waste bins. I can only assume that this is the case across  the board as there were no facilities that we were aware of while over at the City Hospital.  This is something that we feel strongly about so much so that we have been putting all of our recycling in black bags and taking them home to be recycled.  I mean come on where is the “green” policy here!! Should the government not be doing something to bring in policies in places such as this as there is a massive amount of waste generated.  Lets face it hospitals save lives but what about the planet we live on? If anyone has similar experiences or feelings then add your comments below.