News Walt Disney World to eliminate self-service paper straws and plastic lids

[flynnibus]

Technically, , you can get lids that you don't use straws with at Starbucks. And if you only drink Starbucks, you never (have to) use straws!

And I don't drink coffee.. and my bourbon doesn't come in paper cups... so that's how I feel confident in my percentages still

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Technically, , you can get lids that you don't use straws with at Starbucks. And if you only drink Starbucks, you never (have to) use straws!

i can only speak for my local Starbucks but they still have straws out if you’d like one.

 

[dreday3]

i can only speak for my local Starbucks but they still have straws out if you’d like one.

Ours have started keeping them behind the counter, so we have to ask for one. I like a straw with my Refresher!

 

[MrPromey]

I'm old enough to remember when IV & other solutions came in glass bottles. It made a big difference when a confused patient was throwing them at you.

Shampoo, too. Dropping your bottle of shampoo in the shower was dangerous!

ALL of that sounds terrifying.

... but were there deposits on those kinds of bottles?

 

[Disstevefan1]

I have changed my mind, I am loving this first world problem thread better than the Snow White live action remake thread.

I hope some of the WDW vloggers read these boards and give us a video on this

 

[Tha Realest]

Easy solution.

If there are no plastic lids or straws when you pick up your food, ask for one. Stand there in line and wait until one is given to you. If they’re out or they refuse, stay where you are and demand (politey) they refund you the cost of your drinks (don’t get in another line). Hold up the dozen or so people who are also now waiting longer for their food. Offload the inefficiencies back on them.

 

[MrPromey]

My wife is going to bring extra straws and hand them out to people. How generous of her.

She are the magic!

 

[MrPromey]

phade® Compostable Paper Cups

Recyclable, compostable and completely plastic-free. It's the first truly sustainable paper cup option, and it's only from phade®.

www.phadeproducts.com

You keep posting awesome solutions... that would eat into Disney's insane beverage profits.

Have you gone mad, man?!

 

[lazyboy97o]

Easy solution.

If there are no plastic lids or straws when you pick up your food, ask for one. Stand there in line and wait until one is given to you. If they’re out or they refuse, stay where you are and demand (politey) they refund you the cost of your drinks (don’t get in another line). Hold up the dozen or so people who are also now waiting longer for their food. Offload the inefficiencies back on them.

Making things difficult for the employees who have no role in the decision making or control over the situation is a jerk move.

 

[Tha Realest]

Making things difficult for the employees who have no role in the decision making or control over the situation is a jerk move.

But employees making things difficult and inconvenient for the guests is good customer service that will be defended by loyal pixie dusters. Got it

 

[SpectroMagician]

Plastic straws are not an issue as all of them are properly disposed of in the US. You need usually 3 paper straws to get through a single drink. Disney is actively making the guest experience worse for literally no reason.

 

[SpectroMagician]

Easy solution.

If there are no plastic lids or straws when you pick up your food, ask for one. Stand there in line and wait until one is given to you. If they’re out or they refuse, stay where you are and demand (politey) they refund you the cost of your drinks (don’t get in another line). Hold up the dozen or so people who are also now waiting longer for their food. Offload the inefficiencies back on them.

Disney is purposely choosing to make the guest experience much worse due to a false premise that plastic from the US ends up in the ocean. It does not. Plastic from the US is not an issue at all.

 

[orky8]

Disney is purposely choosing to make the guest experience much worse due to a false premise that plastic from the US ends up in the ocean. It does not. Plastic from the US is not an issue at all.

Minor correction, using the (false) premise as a pretense when the real motivation is $.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

It’s interesting to see how CM’s respond to simple requests - like straws, lids, cups of water, etc.

I often ask for soda water which gets LOTS of varied responses.

 

[larryz]

But are they refillable or recyclable?

Of course -- but you wouldn't want to.

 

[Prince-1]

Disney is purposely choosing to make the guest experience much worse due to a false premise that plastic from the US ends up in the ocean. It does not. Plastic from the US is not an issue at all.

How about you show some research that backs your claim up that US plastic does not wind up in the ocean.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

How about you show some research that backs your claim up that US plastic does not wind up in the ocean.

Do you have research that shows that it does? (Serious question)

 

[dreday3]

Do you have research that shows that it does? (Serious question)

A Guide to Plastic in the Ocean

Plastic is everywhere: In your home, your office, your school — and your ocean. Among the top 10 kinds of trash picked up during the 2017 International Coastal Cleanup were food wrappers, beverage bottles, grocery bags, straws, and take out containers, all made of plastic.

oceanservice.noaa.gov

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/12/01/plastic-waste-ocean-us/

 

[dreday3]

We (USA) are also nice enough to actually export (ship waste abroad for recycling) most of our plastic to countries that have bad disposal systems...where it ends up in the ocean.

 

[Prince-1]

Do you have research that shows that it does? (Serious question)

Of course I do. I have several articles but this one shows that we dump over 8 million metric tons of plastic into the ocean.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/12/01/plastic-waste-ocean-us/#:~:text=The%20researchers%20estimated%20that%20between,the%20end%20of%20the%20decade.