As I was reading the newspaper the other day, I came across an article about a local hospital that is starting to take steps to being green.
The steps being taken are:
- handing out reusable shopping bags to each of their 2,400 employees.
- launched a hospital-wide recycling program which will have 350 recycling bins placed throughout the building.
- recycling more than 20,000 pounds of cardboard each month.
- using more environmentally friendly cleaning chemicals.
- using 100 percent biodegradable products instead of Styrofoam plates, bowls, and containers.
I don’t know about you but this blew my mind! A hospital is becoming more environmentally friendly! A hospital that has 2,400 employees (this doesn’t include the patients and visitors) and they are using biodegradable products.
Maybe things like this have been happening for quite some time but in my short time of trying to be green this is the first I have heard of a hospital taking on the task of becoming more green.
What would happen if more hospitals started becoming more environmentally friendly? Can you imagine the impact they could have on their community?
Photo credit: striatic
(This post has been crossed-posted at the Green and Clean Mom community.)
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