Policies and Regulations

The OLC Group Environmental Policy (Revised May 2022)

The OLC Group undertakes environmental activities in line with the OLC Group Environmental Policy.

Governance

The OLC Group’s Structures to Promote Waste Management

Recognizing environmental issues as an important managerial challenge to be addressed, our Board of Directors resolved to set “Measures to address climate change and natural disasters” and “Recycling-oriented society” as areas of our ESG Materiality, and monitor the progress made in our related plans. The OLC Group has established an Environment Committee chaired by the Director of the Corporate Strategy Planning Division (Corporate Officer). Responsible for planning and setting targets for the Company’s environmental activities, the committee works to share our waste management policy across the OLC Group and strengthen collaboration. Through the Environment Committee, targets and plans regarding environmental actions are reported to the Board of Directors annually.

Strategy

Reducing Waste and Increasing Recycling Rates

The OLC Group promotes waste reduction and recycling programs and is making aggressive efforts to reduce our impact on the environment.

Metrics and Targets

Targets and Actual Results in Waste Management—The OLC Group

The OLC Group has been taking actions to reduce waste. In the updated ESG Materiality, we set targets for “Input (inflow of resources),” “Output (discharge of resources),” and “Recycling (recycling of resources),” which were established as target indicators for contributing to a “Recycling-oriented society” based on the government’s recycling promotion plan. We will also continue to work on reducing the amount of waste and saving resources by rigorously enforcing the proper separation of different types of waste and promoting recycling.

KPI

Results

2027

2030

2023

2024

2025

[Input] *1

Single use plastics reduction (vs. FY 2016 levels)

18% reduction

25% reduction

65% reduction

64% reduction

65% reduction

[Output] *2

Incineration/landfill disposal volume (vs. FY 2016 levels)

10% reduction

13% reduction

9% increase

26% increase

16% increase

[Recycling] *3

Percentage recycled

75%

80%

70%

67%

70%

*1 Input: Inflow of resources 
*2 Recycling: Recycling of resources
*3 Output: Discharge of resources

Waste Reduction Results—The OLC Group

FY2023

FY2024

FY2025

Waste emissions

(Total including valuable resources)

26 thousand t

26 thousand t

27 thousand t

Hazardous waste

12 t

22 t

17 t

Percentage recycled

71%

67%

70%

Environment-related Data

Data on environmental performance.

Actions

Input and Recycling Initiatives

Tokyo Disney Resort

Rigorous Waste Sorting

The waste generated at Tokyo Disney Resort is carefully sorted by cast members in accordance with detailed sorting criteria to recycle as much of our waste as possible.

We recycle a wide range of resources including cardboard boxes, kitchen waste, plants, edible oils, plastic bottles, plastic wrapping materials, other plastic waste, copy paper, newspapers and magazines, paper cups, paper packages, empty cans, empty bottles, metal, and wooden chips. These are sent to specialized facilities for recycling.
Also, all of the cardboard used for delivering the products and plastic bottles is recycled.

In FY2025,  we installed eco stations in some parts of the parks on a trial basis in an effort to improve sorting at the time of waste collection, with guests’ cooperation

An eco station installed at our park
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An eco station installed at our park

Initiative example

Outline

Reducing waste from paper and other materials
 

Tokyo Disney Resort
  • Changed our operations related to providing supplies (such as plastic drink lids, straws, ice cream cups, drink sleeves) at some outlets, reducing their use by around 1.4 tons in a year
  • Started using lighter disposable dust cloths for cleaning and operations at restaurants, reducing the materials used by around 31 tons in a year

Recycling
 

Tokyo Disney Resort
  • Some restrooms across our businesses use recycled content from paper cups that have been recycled in the parks.
  • Replaced paper cups for serving beer with aluminum cups at some outlets to promote horizontal recycling*
  • Strengthened sorting of paper packaging materials at some events to promote recycling of waste paper
  • Strengthened recycling of paper used for juice cartons at some outlets

*Reusing resources for the same application

Developing Upcycling Initiatives


Tokyo Disney Resort

Upcycled products have been created and sold by making use of obsolete cast member costumes, among others.

Reducing Food Loss


Tokyo Disney Resort
  • Emergency rice stocks nearing their expiry date are served at employee cafeterias, with a portion of the revenues donated.
  • Furthermore, the remaining near-expiry rice stocks are donated to food banks.
  • Dishes made using non-standard tomatoes, bell peppers, and strawberries produced at farms operated by the OLC Group are served at restaurants in our Theme Parks as well as at employee cafeterias (10 tons of produce is put to good use each year)

Reducing Use of Disposable Plastic

Initiatives to reduce use of disposable plastic
Paper cups are recycled into toilet paper
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Paper cups are recycled into toilet paper

We sold patches and bags made with recycled parts of “Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters” costumes.