14 DAY TRIAL // Nowadays, when the economical crisis awaits behind the corner, it doesn't seem like a good time to be picky. The environmental preservation strategies seem to go hand in hand with measures drawn to ensure the budget conservation. Despite the fact that this is a quite common and successful path followed by challenged individuals all across the Globe, the UK's House of Commons seems to disagree.
It appears that the House of Commons is experiencing a hard time in minimizing its environmental impact and has serious troubles implementing easy-to-follow steps meant to improve its not-so eco-conscious conduct.
It seems that in most of parliamentary facilities temperatures are out of control, since radiators work at their entire capacity even when the weather conditions are still in our favor.
Also, while disregarding Mother Nature's preferential treatment, representatives appear to despise the creative means of recycling, since they said no to reused Christmas cards, on the grounds that such items are of a “significantly inferior quality”.
Following the same path, officials from the UK's House of Commons didn't want to replace the bottled water they use in meeting rooms which the considerable cheaper tap water.
Golden toilet seats and Egyptian-cotton-based toilet paper are next in line, in my humble opinion.