Disney Aims to Go Green

Travel Blog  •  Joanna Kakissis  •  03.13.09 | 10:28 AM ET

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The Walt Disney company aims to cut its emissions by 50 percent by 2013 and to use more recycled material to decrease the amount of trash it sends to landfills, Environmental Leader reports.

Disneyland Resort is already using recycled cooking oil in its Disneyland Railroad steam trains—a move that could help save some 200,000 gallons of petroleum diesel per year. Some Disneyland rides also use biodiesel instead of gasoline, though customers have inexplicably complained about the “french-fry smell” emitted by the biodiesel when burned.

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Joanna Kakissis's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, among other publications. A contributor to the World Hum blog, she's currently a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder.


3 Comments for Disney Aims to Go Green

Grizzly Bear Mom 03.15.09 | 9:42 AM ET

Goodness, the things people complain about.  I LIKE the smell of french fries.  Maye the scent will make tourists hungrier.  Its about time we all stopped consuming the planet as if there were no tomorrow.  One thing they do at Animal Safari Park in San Diego is sell refillable glasses as souveniers.  I still have my plastic gorilla six years later.

San Thomas 03.16.09 | 9:02 AM ET

I am very glad because your article is so good. I also love Disneyland.

Tom 03.27.09 | 8:27 AM ET

I love Disneyland, I wish I could earn so much money one day so I will be able to go there and have fun. I wish you well. Tom

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