Toledo Hospital

I started working at Toledo Hospital 4 days ago. it is astounding how much trash that place produces. anything the patients touch needs to be thrown away. it is completely understandable, but most of the stuff is plastic. wouldn't it be smart to collect all the plastic somehow, sell it to a recycling factory. melt it all back down, and than the hospital purchases the re-fabricated plastics from the company at a lower price. i am amazed at some of the stuff i am forced to toss. heavy plastic measuring cups. heavy plastic sports bottles too. when i say heavy plastic i mean the kind of plastic ya feel bad throwing away, not the flimsy dollar store stuff. un-opened food, all kinds of plastic tubing. the hospital used to recycle cans and bottles in the cafeteria, but it got to expensive so they stopped. they tell us consumers to recycle to save the environment. crock of shit that is. hospitals generate more trash than any consumer could even dream of.