Environmental initiatives in place throughout The Walt Disney Company are designed to protect employees, Guests, Company assets and, of course, Mother Nature. Corporate Environmental Policy encourages and supports these efforts as our Company develops strategic environmental business solutions. At Disney, corporate environmental governance is referred to as Environmentality. The Environmentality brand has come to represent a successful balance between our corporate financial goals and our consistent adherence to meaningful environmental ethics.

Disney continues to demonstrate that the use of creativity and technology within the global Environmentality arena can go hand-in-hand with financial success. Over the past several years, resource conservation programs have yielded impressive gains and value to the Disney organization, totaling savings of more than $38 million and earning 15 local and national awards.

 

Additional benefits can be expressed in non-financial terms, such as better air quality and less waste. One such example includes greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions as a result of alternative waste management; that is, the diversion of waste from landfills. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and based on recycling and waste prevention data supplied by Disney, the Company has reduced more than 47,500 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents in the 2003 calendar year (the most recent year in which such data has been calculated). As a point of reference, this is equivalent to removing 10,282 passenger cars from the road for one year, saving more than 5.4 million gallons of gasoline, planting more than 1.2 million trees or eliminating nearly two million home barbeque propane cylinders.