Is this gross, genius, or a mix of both?Credit: DisneyRelated: New Breakfast Buffet Coming to Iconic EPCOT Restaurant For 2025 Food & Wine Festival!Possibly the most magical time to visit “The Most Magical Place on Earth” is during the Christmas season, as special limited-time decorations, merchandise, and entertainment are offered across Walt Disney World property. One of the most famous and beloved decorations are the wonderful life-size gingerbread creations that pop up across the various Disney World Resorts and hotels (most notably, the gingerbread house at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort).But what Disney does with all of the leftover candy and cookies will shock you.According to the official Disney Parks Blog, Disney recycles all of the gingerbread by giving it to local bees. You heard us right—bees help Disney clean up its Resorts.Barry Stockwell, Planned Work Specialist with Event Decorating Support, explained this weird method of recycling, saying:“Ten years ago, when performing our annual gingerbread display cleaning, we noticed bees were very attracted to the sugar on the displays after deconstruction. We decided to bring the display pieces to our Disney tree farm and lay them out in our field to give the bees a chance to collect the sugar on the wooden structures.”Disney explained this process further in a video posted to TikTok from the official Disney parks account (@disneyparks).You won’t bee-lieve what happens to the #DisneyWorld Gingerbread Houses #Disney #DisneyParks #Conservation #AnimalLover#Bee #Gingerbread @disneyparks You won’t bee-lieve what happens to the #DisneyWorld Gingerbread Houses #Disney #DisneyParks #Conservation #AnimalLover #Bee #Gingerbread ♬ original sound – Disney Parks Related: After Four Years, Disney Reverses Controversial Magic Kingdom PolicyDisney claims that this recycling process begins just after the holiday season ends, leaving the Walt Disney World Event Decorating Support team and Pastry Chefs to begin removing gingerbread from the wooden structures used to build these magical holiday-inspired gingerbread displays.After all of the gingerbread is removed, “it’s recycled to use for compositing, leaving a wooden structure covered in royal icing made of sugar.The team then breaks down the structure piece by piece and transports it to the Walt Disney World Resort tree farm. Then, it’s all up to the bees to find the sugar-coated wooden pieces and collect the sugar. After the bees have left, the wooden pieces are power washed with hot water, and the display is stored until the next holiday season.Have you ever seen the life-size gingerbread displays at Walt Disney World? What do you think about how Disney recycles them? Let us know in the comments below!The post How Disney World Uses Bugs To Get Rid of Over 1,000 Pounds of Garbage appeared first on Inside the Magic.