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They wouldn't use so much toilet paper if the quality was improved. I had to use about a mile every time I went to the bathroom there. The TP was so bad. It was like using wax paper. Everything just got smeared around and ripped apart. Ew. I paid for better treatment than that.
Toothpicks! Have you ever been on the Behind the Seeds tour? The plants were cool, but the trash can FULL of toothpicks was the thing that mesmerized me! Eat guest is given a vegetable or fruit sample from the greenhouse and they throw their toothpick in the receptacle. It has to be about a 30 gallon container and it was nearly full. I've never seen so many toothpicks at one place!
How do people get so many pens? We put the one that's in our room in our suitcase upon arrival, thinking it will be replaced by mousekeeping. Never happens throughout our whole stay.
I'm laughing at number 8 because when it comes to Disney pens I end up taking home at least 2 a day. I've got boxes of them. I just counted and I have 15 within an arm's reach of me right now.
Also, they throw a lot of food out at the restaurants every shift. They will not allow the workers to eat any leftovers, and it is against policy to let employees eat at work, if your caught, your terminated.
And there are so many hungry people in the U.S. alone.
Don't forget the environmental impact Disney takes part in. All paper plates and cups are recycled. All water goes through a recycling process. Most fruits and vegetables are either grown locally or grown on property. Every piece of trash that is thrown away at WDW is sorted and then, if recyclable, gets recycled (they make a fortune off your trash btw), all toilet paper and hand towels are biodegradable and are supposed to completely dissolve after sitting in water for more than fifteen minutes (haven't tried this but it does explain how the toilets seem to never clog up), all fuel powered vehicles that are owned by Disney are run on clean diesel fuel or clean gasoline, and finally, unlike their neighbor Universal, Disney does not use LN2 for fog effects. They make their own fog using machines backstage that generate steam. The steam is then piped in to the attraction creating the smoky or foggy environments. Using liquid Nitrogen (dry ice) is more harmful to the environment and will kill most animals that are exposed to it long term.
The last sentence of your paragraph is wrong!! "Dry ice" is made from frozen carbon dioxide, not liquid nitrogen. Get your science & chemistry facts straight before you start writing an article.
Dry ice and liquid nitrogen are two extremely different things.
I applaud Disney's efforts to recycle, and most of what you write is correct. However, as Jason mentioned, dry ice is from liquid CO2 not LN2. Nitrogen is the most common element in atmosphere and is used in food prep and has no adverse effects on humans or environment. Also, many that suppprt man-made global warming or whatever they are calling it this week speak negatively of CO2. This gas is used by all green plants and is not dangerous--it exists naturally. Makers of dry ice take CO2 out of atmosphere, lower temp under pressure, which reduces to a liquid and further decreases in temp, freezes it. There is no net increase in amount of CO2. Where additional increases of CO2 is formed it is not necessarily dangerous. This increase comes as a by product of a chemical reaction such as exhaust from combustion engines. But even then, the amount of vegetation has increased at a greater rate than production of by product CO2. Regardless, that is beyond the scope of this post.
Believe me the toilets DO clog up. I work custodial at Animal Kingdom and it is amazing how many people paper towels in the toilet. LOTS of it.
You are absolutely kidding yourself if you think that all the trash in those cans gets recycled. That is an absolute farce!!
Is that last 1 a joke??Eww!!
I thought the same thing at first, but I think there referring to ANIMALS eating the worms, not the guests lol
They mean the animals....derr