This website talks about state government run hospital waste... so here is an example of what we are talking about...

This image is quite simple. This is 1 days worth of PLASTIC pill dispensers for 1 patient.

but who cares about the planet?

It´s not just about the fact that each of these dispensers cost money... they do and being plastic the amount of money spent on these, given that pill dispensers are used every day for every patient in every hospital, must be huge. (huge bloody waste!)

BUT what about the planet?

In an era of growing evironmental concern, how is it that hospitals can be so careless about their impact on the planet?

Why is it impossible for just one of these per patient per day be used? Better yet why is it not possible for these to be made out of recyclable materials? 

Needless to say, this is just one example and thus is the tip of the melting icebergs. I guess when the atmosphere is being sucked out into space through the hole in the ozone layer and humans along with  everything else on the planet are dead, then these small cups won´t matter, will they?