Waste Management details

[mousermerf]

From a press release about Waste Management and a larger overall consumer-knowledge initiative...

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Next month, another component of the campaign will be launched at INNOVENTIONS at Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort. There, guests visiting the INNOVENTIONS pavilion will have the opportunity to virtually experience the operations on a single-stream recycling line, feed the boiler at a waste-to-energy facility and run the bulldozer at a landfill in a hands-on, interactive exhibit called "Don't Waste It." In a fun and entertaining way, families will have the ability to calculate the amount of garbage they produce in a year and then have the responsibility to dispose of it safely and in ways that enhance the environment.

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Linky to full article:

http://www.csrwire.com/News/10844.html

 

[daverube]

From a press release about Waste Management and a larger overall consumer-knowledge initiative...

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Next month, another component of the campaign will be launched at INNOVENTIONS at Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort. There, guests visiting the INNOVENTIONS pavilion will have the opportunity to virtually experience the operations on a single-stream recycling line, feed the boiler at a waste-to-energy facility and run the bulldozer at a landfill in a hands-on, interactive exhibit called "Don't Waste It." In a fun and entertaining way, families will have the ability to calculate the amount of garbage they produce in a year and then have the responsibility to dispose of it safely and in ways that enhance the environment.

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Linky to full article:

http://www.csrwire.com/News/10844.html

Due to our professions, I have a feeling that my wife and I produce A LOT of garbage every year!! However, it could be said that I also "take out" a lot of garbage!!! :animwink:

Thanks for the updates, Merf!!

dave

 

[michaelcostella]

This is a really good idea, people need to realize how much waste is produced every year in order to reduce the amount of waste. Good thinking Disney!

 

[HeySuburbia]

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[CajunsCanCook]

I just read the Kingdom Keepers book, the fiction book about the magic kingdom, and they talked about a tube system underneath the MK for the garbage. Does anyone know if that is true or something they just made up for the book?

 

[Captain Hank]

I just read the Kingdom Keepers book, the fiction book about the magic kingdom, and they talked about a tube system underneath the MK for the garbage. Does anyone know if that is true or something they just made up for the book?

It's true.

Well, I should qualify that by saying that I've never read Kingdom Keepers, so I'm not sure if the system is accurately described in the book. The system consists of large pneumatic tubes that run through the Utilidors under the Magic Kingdom. It's called AVACS and it's Swiss-designed and built. By the way, the trash is spat out into a little building right next to Splash Mountain.

 

[PhilharMagician]

As I have said before. Merf you do not miss much! Thanks for your hard work.:wave:

 

[Texas84]

I just read the Kingdom Keepers book, the fiction book about the magic kingdom, and they talked about a tube system underneath the MK for the garbage. Does anyone know if that is true or something they just made up for the book?

Yep. Saw it on a backstage tour back in the 90's. Very cool!

 

[CajunsCanCook]

It's true.

Well, I should qualify that by saying that I've never read Kingdom Keepers, so I'm not sure if the system is accurately described in the book. The system consists of large pneumatic tubes that run through the Utilidors under the Magic Kingdom. It's called AVACS and it's Swiss-designed and built. By the way, the trash is spat out into a little building right next to Splash Mountain.

Thats just how it is in the book, thanks! and thanks to Texas82 as well. And that book is a pretty good read, its pretty acurate parks wise except since it came out a few years ago it says MGM instead of DHS lol

 

[DME]

Ever notice you don't see cast members walking around the park hauling large dumpsters of garbarge? They just swap out a filled bin from inside the can with a new bin and then go backstage and dump it. A really really large vacuum system brings all the garbage into a large dumpster that's located behind Splash Mountain. It can get noisy since they put rocks inside of the tubes to keep them from getting clogged.

 

[MichWolv]

It's true.

Well, I should qualify that by saying that I've never read Kingdom Keepers, so I'm not sure if the system is accurately described in the book. The system consists of large pneumatic tubes that run through the Utilidors under the Magic Kingdom. It's called AVACS and it's Swiss-designed and built. By the way, the trash is spat out into a little building right next to Splash Mountain.

And according to the CM who led my Backstage Magic tour last year, the reason you don't see recycling bins around Disney property is that all of the garbage is sorted for recyclables. Sounds like we may get a demo of that in the new Innoventions Exhibit -- hopefully without the smell.

 

[raiden]

I wonder if the exhibit will provide stats on the waste produced by WDW, and provide information on how they are trying to reduce that waste.

Thats very unlikely Mr. Ben weasel

 

[CrashNet]

What's interesting about the pavilion, and you'll know why I'm saying this the second you see it for the first time, is they had to remove part of the floor and add new support columns to hold the exhibit above it. Its a pretty neat attraction, and a nice addition to Innoventions.