DIsney Cruise Line Conservation

The Disney Destinations are committed to giving families opportunities to discover their connection with the natural world and to helping those who are working to make our home a better place for the next generation.  Discover just a few of Disney conservation efforts:

• Disney Cruise Line® eliminates more than 1,200 tons of metal, plastic and paper from traditional waste streams and recycles it each year.
• When Disney California Adventure® Park was preparing for World of Color, instead of draining the 16 million gallons into the ocean, the Cast Members worked with the county to store the water in underground reservoirs.  The same water was then used to refill the lagoon.
• More than 43,000 tons of waste was diverted from landfills through recycling and donations at the Disneyland® Resort — enough to nearly fill Space Mountain.
  
• All Disney Cruise Line® ships have a 100 percent non-toxic hull coating which reduces surface resistance in open water.
• Eight turtles injured by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico spent their rehabilitation at the Walt Disney World® Resort under the care of Disney animal experts.  The Disney animal care team were ready to help in the Panhandle as needed and rehabilitation facilities at Disney’s Animal Kingdom® park and at Epcot’s The Seas with Nemo & Friends are available for treating turtles and birds impacted by the spill.
• Disney Friends for Change has distributed more than $2 million to environmental charities worldwide, via the Disney Friends for Change grants programs and Youth Service Awards. Through Disney Friends for Change, kids learn practical ways to help the environment, get their friends involved, track their collective impact on the environment and have the opportunity to help Disney decide how $1 million in contributions to various environmental causes will be made over the course of a year.
• Water conservation efforts at the Walt Disney World® Resort have enabled aquifer withdrawals to remain at levels from 23 years ago, even though the resort has grown by two parks, two water parks and 20 resort hotels since that time.
• The Disney Dream™ features technology to determine accurate energy management which maximizes the heating, ventilation and cooling systems based on real-time requirements. As part of this system, guest staterooms self-adjust when unoccupied and return to the desired temperature upon a guests’ return.
• The trains at Disneyland® Resort are powered by biodiesel that is made from cooking oils recycled from the park’s restaurants.
• Thousands of lights decorate the castles at the Disney parks, but because they are mostly energy-efficient LED light bulbs, the 170,000 LED lights on one castle use only the amount of electricity it takes to power 12 microwave ovens
• Two rhinos born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom®, were shipped in specially designed crates from Florida to Africa.  They joined four others at the Ziwa Sanctuary to help start families that could re-establish a rhino population that has been extinct in Uganda since 1972.
• Disney Cruise Line® Cast and crew members have donated more than 4,500 hours in the port communities the Disney ships calls home, including giving back to local nonprofits, hosting annual walks to raise funds and awareness for conservation programs and leading shore cleanups, that to date have removed 31,000 pounds of trash and debris from beaches and fragile waterways.