With many guests visiting our Theme Parks every day, the Tokyo Disney Resort is much like a big city.
The OLC Group promotes waste reduction and recycling programs and is making aggressive efforts to reduce our impact on the environment.
Our Group has been taking actions to reduce waste and has set the following targets in order to contribute to “Recycling-oriented society,” our ESG materiality. We will also continue to work on saving resources by reducing the amount of waste rigorously enforcing the proper separation of different types of waste, and promoting recycling.
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The OLC Group undertakes environmental activities in line with Our Environmental Policy.
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 ESG materiality, and monitor the progress made in our related plans. Our Group has established an Environmental Action Committee chaired by the Director of the Corporate Strategy Planning Division (Executive Director and Executive Officer). The committee is responsible for planning and setting targets for the Company’s environmental activities including climate change. Established under the Environmental Action Committee, the Subcommittee on Resource Recycling works to share our waste management policy across our Group and strengthen collaboration to conduct fact-finding surveys, devise strategies for addressing environmental issues, and implement initiatives to reduce environmental impact. Through the Environmental Action Committee, targets and plans regarding environment actions are reported to the Board of Directors annually.
In FY 2002, when Tokyo DisneySea was first open for the entire year, the recycling rate fell short of 50 percent; by contrast, the rate across the entire Tokyo Disney Resort reached 70 percent level in these several years as a result of the initiatives above. We recycle virtually all of the kitchen waste generated in our Theme Parks.
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＊Rate of waste recycled of all waste generated according to the business operations of Tokyo Disney Resort（total recycled waste/total waste×100）
Tokyo Disney Resort
The waste generated at the 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 that are used for delivering the products and plastic bottles are recycled.
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Donations to Food Banks |
Pre-gelatinized rice stored for disaster response along with other unexpired food and still-usable tableware are donated to food banks, mainly a certified NPO called Second Harvest Japan*. |
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Reducing Food Loss |
Dishes made using non-standard tomatoes, bell peppers, and strawberries produced at the Hokuto and Teshikaga farms operated by the Group are served at restaurants in our Theme Parks as well as in the employee cafeteria (36 tons of produce is put to good use each year). |
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Developing Environmentally Friendly Products |
Products have been created and sold under our original brand by making use of discarded plastic bottles collected at our Theme Parks, coffee dregs from our restaurants, and obsolete cast member costumes, among others. |
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Recycling Loop
Tokyo Disney Resort |
Selected restrooms across our businesses use toilet paper made from recycled paper. Some of these restrooms located at TDL and TDS use 30% recycled content from paper cups that have been recycled in the parks. |
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Measures to reduce paper waste
Tokyo Disney Resort |
Stopped providing paper bags as a standard amenity in hotel rooms on February 28, 2023 |
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Reducing Use of Disposable Plastic |
Click here for initiatives to reduce use of disposable plastic |
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- Paper cups are recycled into toilet paper
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Initiatives to reduce the amount of plastic packaging used |
We introduced strawless lids at some Theme Park |
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Switch to recyclable material |
Helped increase the value of recycling by switching from paper to aluminum beer cups at some restaurants on a trial basis |
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Promoting the use of paper packaging made from recycled materials |
We enacted the Guidelines on Paper Procurement and are requesting that our suppliers basically use recycled paper in paper packaging |
