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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Caroline Reid and Christian Sylt

Disney’s Snow White had higher carbon emissions than the latest Fast & Furious film

Snow White with a bird on her hand
Snow White and The Little Mermaid are the most polluting Disney movies made in the UK since 2019. Photograph: Disney/AP

At a screening of the new Snow White movie in London last month, influencers walked through an artificial fairytale forest, complete with a full-size thatched cottage filled with models of furry animals. In the US, Disney paraded an actual bunny in a brown knitted jumper down the red carpet at the film’s Hollywood premiere.

But the film’s theme of being at one with nature seems not to have extended to the real-life environment, with company documents showing the making of Snow White generated more greenhouse gas emissions in the UK than the latest Fast & Furious film, despite the latter’s reliance on an array of gas-guzzling cars.

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