KFC extends bin campaign to Victoria

Fast food chain KFC Australia has installed new recycling systems at 48 of its restaurants across Victoria KFC Australia as part of its participation in  the Australian Packaging Covenant's (APC) “Do the Right Thing, Use the Right Bin” campaign.

The Victorian rollout follows the company's installation of the bins at its outlets in New South Wales and South Australia. KFC says more than 130 of its restaurants are now equipped with the recycling systems, making it the largest network of quick service restaurants in Australia to provide away-from-home recycling opportunities for its customers. 

KFC was the first quick service restaurant to sign up for the APC's national recycling initiative.

The new public use bins now provide away-from-home recycling opportunities for an estimated 29 million customer visits to the chain's restaurants each year.

Back-of-house cardboard recycling bins have also been installed in 88 Victorian restaurants, helping to divert thousands of tonnes of waste from landfill nationally.

The chief supply chain officer at KFC Australia, Michael Clarke, said the rollout had  proved extremely successful across NSW and South Australia, and the company was expecting similar results in Victoria.

“Last year, nationally we diverted over 1,800 tonnes of cardboard, bottles and cans from landfill through our closed loop recycling program, the first national public place recycling program of its kind in the quick service restaurant industry,” he said.

Launching KFC's away from home recycling campaign in Victoria, from left: managing director of Closed Loop Environmental Services, Robert Pascoe, KFC's Michael Clarke, APC chief executive Stan Moore and Victoria's minister for environment and climate change, Ryan Smith.