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

[JeffyJoseph]

Does Disney sell reusable straws at the parks yet?

They sold these before:

 

[drizgirl]

I have no interest in carrying around a wet straw in my bag at the park. Nor do I have an interest in needing to wash it between uses. I'll continue to keep a supply of plastic disposables in my park bag (except at AK)

 

[orky8]

It's like the people running the place have never met their core audience - families/children. Kids are really great with open cups without lids....

 

[Andrew C]

Does Joffreys still have the agave/sugarcane straws? Those are decent.

 

[CaptinEO]

Over at Disneyland in 2018 or 2019 they tried getting rid of straws and lids all together, not even behind the counter if you asked.

You'd see a dad with like 7 cups of soda on a tray with no lids, it was comical.

After the pandemic they were back to using straws and lids.

 

[Nunu]

It's like the people running the place have never met their core audience - families/children. Kids are really great with open cups without lids....

It's not only kids, at the parks, I sometimes walk around with a beverage in hand, not having a lid isn't practical with the crowds and people bumping into you.

 

[Epcot81Fan]

Love this -- we all need to focus on our environment and this little bit can only help. It takes nothing to travel with a reusable straw, especially now knowing you'd need one at the World! Throw it in your bag, with your magic band, extra power source, etc.

 

[ChrisFL]

Ok Stop making and selling plastic toys if they really cared about the environment!

and balloons

 

[ChrisFL]

Over at Disneyland in 2018 or 2019 they tried getting rid of straws and lids all together, not even behind the counter if you asked.

You'd see a dad with like 7 cups of soda on a try with no lids, it was comical.

After the pandemic they were back to using straws and lids.

They did at WDW too didn't they?

 

[bruiser]

It's not only kids, at the parks, I sometimes walk around with a beverage in hand, not having a lid isn't practical with the crowds and people bumping into you.

I guess all those cleaning supplies is very good for the environment its just getting soo silly.

 

[Brian]

 

[MagicHappens1971]

Does Disney sell reusable straws at the parks yet?

They do, and have for years.

 

[Epcot81Fan]

and balloons

And stop operating parks and having merchandise manufactured in China, the world’s worst polluter.

Nonsensical virtue signaling that achieves nothing, besides irritating guests.

 

[ChrisFL]

And stop operating parks and having merchandise manufactured in China, the world’s worst polluter.

Nonsensical virtue signaling that achieves nothing, besides irritating guests.

Well, balloons are an extra problem as we're running out of helium apparently (I saw an article about it recently)

 

[The Colonel]

Until they stop selling seven billion plastic water and soda bottles a year, this is just a thinly disguised cost cutting measure.

 

[Ricky Spanish]

Ok Stop making and selling plastic toys if they really cared about the environment!

Eliminating straws and lids has nothing to do with the environment.
My dad worked for 7up for 35 years and I don’t know how many times I heard, “ The cup, lid and straw cost way more than the soda”.

It's not only kids, at the parks, I sometimes walk around with a beverage in hand, not having a lid isn't practical with the crowds and people bumping into you.

I see way more people walking around Disney with $5 bottles of Coca Cola rather than cups with no lids.

 

[WaltsTreasureChest]

Can they get rid of those terrible paper straws that no one likes, and at least replace them with recyclable straws that don’t melt when you drink out of a cup? It’s annoying

 

[The Colonel]

should have stopped after the word self

 

[Brian]

Remember when Apple eliminated the charging brick from the iPhone box because of "the environment?"

 

[hopemax]

Oh, so I can have the experience of having a person cutting me off and abruptly stopping so my tray hits their back and spill sodas down my shirt in all the parks and not just at Animal Kingdom…great…