The OLC Group undertakes environmental activities in line with the OLC Group 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 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 (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 Environment Committee, the Subcommittee on Resource Recycling shares our waste management policy across the OLC Group and strengthens collaboration. We strive to implement initiatives to reduce environmental impact by conducting fact-finding surveys, and devise strategies for reducing waste generated by The OLC Group including single-use plastics. Through the Environment Committee, targets and plans regarding environment actions are reported to the Board of Directors annually.
With many guests visiting our Theme Parks every day, 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.
Tokyo Disney Resort
The OLC Group has been taking actions to reduce waste and has set the following targets in order to contribute to a “Recycling-oriented society,” our ESG Materiality. 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.
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Tokyo Disney Resort
In FY2002, when Tokyo DisneySea was first open for the entire year, the recycling rate fell short of 50%; by contrast, the rate across the entire Tokyo Disney Resort has reached the 70% level in these past several years as a result of the initiatives above.
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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 used for delivering the products and plastic bottles is recycled.

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Making Use of Emergency Rice Stocks |
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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 OLC Group are served at restaurants in our Theme Parks as well as at employee cafeterias (46 tons of produce is put to good use each year). |
Developing Environmentally Friendly Products |
Upcycled products have been created and sold by making use of obsolete cast member costumes, among others. |
Recycling Loop
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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. |
Measures to reduce paper waste
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Stopped providing paper bags as a standard amenity in hotel rooms on February 28, 2023 |
Adoption of food waste disposal machines
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Adopted machines that use microorganisms to decompose and micronize food waste and emit residues as water |
Use of recyclable plates
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Adopted recyclable film-coated plates. The film can be peeled off and discarded after use. By collecting and recycling the plates, waste was reduced by five tons in approximately six months compared to the amount produced when paper plates were used during the 2023 testing period |
Beer brewed from non-standard bread |
Beer* is brewed using bread manufactured at Ikspiari that failed to meet brand standards. The system upcycles around 0.6 tons of bread a year within the OLC Group, achieving higher quality recycling. |
Reducing Use of Disposable Plastic |
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- Paper cups are recycled into toilet paper
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- We sold bags made with recycled parts of Tokyo Disney Resort 40th “Dream-Go-Round” garlands.
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- Introduced food waste disposal machines that harness the power of microorganisms
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- Using plates that can be recycled after the film coating is peeled off
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Initiatives to reduce the amount of plastic packaging used |
We introduced strawless lids at some Theme Park We also started charging for plastic shopping bags at stores selling merchandise to reduce plastic use. (Use of plastic was reduced by about 73% per guest on weight basis compared with before we started charging for the bags.) |
Switch to recyclable material |
We helped increase the value of recycling by switching from paper to aluminum beer cups at some restaurants on a trial basis. |