phinz
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If Disney does make the move towards dispensers it will be to save money not the environment.
This. It's greenwashing by the company, and it's entirely about the money.
If Disney does make the move towards dispensers it will be to save money not the environment.
The hotel I was at this weekend has locking dispensers. You're not opening it unless you're housekeeping. But regardless, how many people try to stick their hands into soap dispensers in public restrooms? Same idea.
I was MIA for a couple of months (new house, husband's broken leg and Europe trip), I come back to the DIS and this is what I find... no more toiletries in the bathrooms?
I understand the need for this from an environmental standpoint, but seeing those little tubes of goodies in the bathrooms on embarkation day is super awesome. I wonder if they can make the packaging more environmentally friendly instead?
The hotel I was at this weekend has locking dispensers. You're not opening it unless you're housekeeping. But regardless, how many people try to stick their hands into soap dispensers in public restrooms? Same idea.
I do like using the bottles and usually found that one bottle would last most of my cruise, it used to kind of annoy me when they replaced mine with new ones when my old one was still nearly full and easily viewable in the shower.
I've also had both housekeeping at Disney and DCL stateroom attendants replace bottles of toiletries when I still had a good amount in the remaining bottle(s). I appreciate the generosity, but it wasn't always needed.
I've had a different experience. If they see that my bottles were not completely empty, they would leave it and just provide a new set. I don't think they've ever taken it even if it was half full.
I've been monitoring this thread since it started, and I just keep coming back to the personal view that creating all those individual size bottles of shampoo, conditioner, lotion and soap is massively wasteful, this is for 4 ships now, what will it be like if they continue doing it for 7 ships? The waste from packaging is one of the biggest factors for landfills reaching maximum capacity so quickly. Reducing this waste might over all save DCL money, but it WILL reduce waste not from trash from partially empty containers being thrown away but also loss from people hoarding them when they are on board. I applaud this move by Disney just like the removal of plastic straws and lids from drinks. Stop and think maybe just maybe one of the reasons DCL's prices are so high might be because they're covering costs from loss and waste. On our 2017 WBPC trip a passenger was stopped in San Diego by customs because he literally had an ENTIRE suitcase full of the toiletries he had been hoarding the entire cruise plus asking the crew for extras virtually every single day. Souvenirs are one thing but this was tantamount to stealing from DCL. I think this might curb such activity. I think we get more than enough to take home from our cruises with out having to engage in theft by these means.
I've been monitoring this thread since it started, and I just keep coming back to the personal view that creating all those individual size bottles of shampoo, conditioner, lotion and soap is massively wasteful, this is for 4 ships now, what will it be like if they continue doing it for 7 ships? The waste from packaging is one of the biggest factors for landfills reaching maximum capacity so quickly. Reducing this waste might over all save DCL money, but it WILL reduce waste not from trash from partially empty containers being thrown away but also loss from people hoarding them when they are on board. I applaud this move by Disney just like the removal of plastic straws and lids from drinks. Stop and think maybe just maybe one of the reasons DCL's prices are so high might be because they're covering costs from loss and waste. On our 2017 WBPC trip a passenger was stopped in San Diego by customs because he literally had an ENTIRE suitcase full of the toiletries he had been hoarding the entire cruise plus asking the crew for extras virtually every single day. Souvenirs are one thing but this was tantamount to stealing from DCL. I think this might curb such activity. I think we get more than enough to take home from our cruises with out having to engage in theft by these means.
Stop and think maybe just maybe one of the reasons DCL's prices are so high might be because they're covering costs from loss and waste.
Economics 101. Supply and demand.I don't even begin to think this is why prices are so high, even if I stop to do so. Disney charges so much because they *can* charge so much. Witness the exponential growth in prices on Concierge accommodations in the past 5 years, yet they still sell out. They're raising prices to raise their margins. Period. It's the same reason park prices have gotten ludicrous. People will pay it, so why not charge it?
If Disney is worried about stealing, there are other ways to deal with it, like you have to sign for your shampoo allotment for the cruise, just as you have to sign for your castaway gift. Disney did not always ask customers to sign for castaway gifts, so maybe Disney should have just disposed of those as well? Also, plastics are easily recycled. No landfill issues.
We used to have issues with Raccoons when we lived in the East Coast...but the green bins there were larger than those rolling garbage cans. Composting is a major deal there and they started many years before most provinces.
Anyway, we tried several things...the only thing that worked for us was putting a brick on top of it...didn't think it would work, but it did...
The small ones we have now have latches like the one Figment Spark showed...but it's a metal latch...it's difficult to unhinged...our issues were flies and after spraying the bin with peppermint, it's cut down a bit...