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

[WorldExplorer]

I read it the same way as you did. Also, I'd like somebody to teach me what a business that serves food will do with food waste if not send it to a landfill in order to achieve "zero waste to landfill." What will they be doing with the rubber gloves that food prep people and cleaners wear? Reuse them?

The slogan wouldn't be as catchy but it would be much more realistic to say that our goal is to reduce our waste to landfill by 80% by 2030.

Can't say anything about the gloves, but apparently the foodwaste is somehow turned into bus fuel.

 

[DisneyCane]

Can't say anything about the gloves, but apparently the foodwaste is somehow turned into bus fuel.

Cooking oil can be made into biodiesel but your leftover meat and turkey leg bone aren't turning into bus fuel.

 

[DisneyCane]

On a individual level we at home compost all our kitchen food waste and grass clippings. Our garden soil has gone from sand to rich organic soil. I would guess Disney could do the same on a large scale-bag it and sell it as Disney magic dirt.

If they are going to make a giant compost pile than they can just switch to compostable plastic straws and lids which will still allow them to achieve their "zero waste to landfill goal."

Hopefully they create the pile far enough so an odor doesn't waft into the parks.

 

[John park hopper]

If they are going to make a giant compost pile than they can just switch to compostable plastic straws and lids which will still allow them to achieve their "zero waste to landfill goal."

Hopefully they create the pile far enough so an odor doesn't waft into the parks.

They have plenty of land and done right it really doesn't smell that bad. Read somewhere plastic made of corn degrade rapidly

 

[cranbiz]

Disney has a large transfer facility next to VM south. You don't get any smells that you can detect at any of the Seven Seas resorts or MK from it.

It's in the same area as the waste water treatment plant and no one really knows either of them are there.

 

[Ayla]

If they are going to make a giant compost pile than they can just switch to compostable plastic straws and lids which will still allow them to achieve their "zero waste to landfill goal."

Hopefully they create the pile far enough so an odor doesn't waft into the parks.

All of MK's trash is taken care of behind Splash Mtn.

 

[JoeCamel]

Disney has a large transfer facility next to VM south. You don't get any smells that you can detect at any of the Seven Seas resorts or MK from it.

It's in the same area as the waste water treatment plant and no one really knows either of them are there.

Just everyone that has ever taken the backstage tour.....

All of MK's trash is taken care of behind Splash Mtn.

Take a stroll along the river in the morning and catch a magical whiff of garbage. I swear they start moving it at rope drop

 

[DisneyCane]

All of MK's trash is taken care of behind Splash Mtn.

But it isn't left there to decompose

 

[Ayla]

@Disstevefan1 That isn't a joke. That is where MK's trash facility is located.

 

[Disstevefan1]

@Disstevefan1 That isn't a joke. That is where MK's trash facility is located.

Good to know. Thanks.

 

[John park hopper]

All of MK's trash is taken care of behind Splash Mtn.

Did you mean trash mountain

 

[Nubs70]

Can't say anything about the gloves, but apparently the foodwaste is somehow turned into bus fuel.

Food waste can be anaerobically digested to produce methane. The methane is then purified and compressed and can be used to as fuel.

Landfills can also be considered large anaerobic digesters which evolve methane that can then be used as fuels for mini turbines that produce electricity.

 

[JoeCamel]

So its just a cash grab right?

 

[Nunu]

So its just a cash grab right?

Boo.

I'd post it here, too:

Connections Cafe and Eatery

The new quick service coming to EPCOT - Connections Cafe https://www.wdwmagic.com/dining/connections-cafe/news/20nov2021-epcots-new-quick-service-restaurant-to-be-named-connections-café-and-eatery.htm

forums.wdwmagic.com

 

[LittleBuford]

So its just a cash grab right?

I hope this isn’t a permanent switch. Very unfortunate if so.

 

[arich35]

So its just a cash grab right?

They already paid for the plates, why wouldn't they use them?

 

[J4546]

are people stealing the plates or something?

 

[JoeCamel]

They already paid for the plates, why wouldn't they use them?

Same as food and wine I guess

 

[CntrlFlPete]

Based on my three counter service experiences this week, they have already eliminated lids. At all three, I have asked for lids and straws when picking up my meal. At all three, I was given a paper straw, but told that lids were no longer available.

this was my experience over Labor Day weekend. Every place we asked said that they did not have any lids.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Just sat down at the boardwalk and a bug landed in my drink. Another reason lids are nice to provide guests.