Comments on: Inhabitat Epcot review http://thedisneyblog.com/2007/07/26/inhabitat-epcot/ Disney News and Information -- by fans, for fans Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:16:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Joe Shelby http://thedisneyblog.com/2007/07/26/inhabitat-epcot/comment-page-1/#comment-1170 Joe Shelby Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:12:47 +0000 http://thedisneyblog.com/2007/07/26/inhabitat-epcot-review/#comment-1170 On the backstage tour, while showing us the VACKS (sp?) vacuum based trash system (also discussed in the Modern Marvels documentary - the main outlet site is backstage @ frontierland behind Splash Mountain, where it's intentionally downwind, and downhill, of the park), our tour guide discussed how the trash is sorted, by hand (well, with tools to avoid touching it) for recycling and biodegradable materials as it's brought into the landfill a mile away. They don't bother with separate recycling bins because they're often ignored, create an eyesore (and a violation of theme) in certain parts of the park, especially Main Street, and get filled with trash anyways by foreign tourists and ignorant bafoons who don't know or don't care what the recycling symbol means. But they do recycle. Otherwise, he said, their landfill a mile away would have been filled up years ago. On the backstage tour, while showing us the VACKS (sp?) vacuum based trash system (also discussed in the Modern Marvels documentary – the main outlet site is backstage @ frontierland behind Splash Mountain, where it’s intentionally downwind, and downhill, of the park), our tour guide discussed how the trash is sorted, by hand (well, with tools to avoid touching it) for recycling and biodegradable materials as it’s brought into the landfill a mile away. They don’t bother with separate recycling bins because they’re often ignored, create an eyesore (and a violation of theme) in certain parts of the park, especially Main Street, and get filled with trash anyways by foreign tourists and ignorant bafoons who don’t know or don’t care what the recycling symbol means.

But they do recycle. Otherwise, he said, their landfill a mile away would have been filled up years ago.

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