Disney World has its own massive recycling and water treatment plant. It treats over 22 million gallons of water daily. It also has a 1,000-acre wildlife conservation area where they breed rare species like the okapi and the white rhinoceros.
Enlarged Map Of Disney World
They employ over 77,000 “cast members”—that’s more people than many small towns have residents. And the property has its own 60-foot-tall, fully operational farmer’s market hidden inside the greenhouses at Epcot’s “Behind the Seeds” tour. You can buy fresh Mickey-shaped peppers.
Finally, the Reedy Creek Fire Department (the property’s own fire service) responds to more calls inside Disney property than any single city in Orange County. The scale is so immense that it’s safer to think of it as a small, meticulously themed nation-state than a vacation destination.
