Sustainability

Supporting regenerate supply chains

Our commitment to regeneration includes our planet, business partners and communities: Together, we are leading a regenerative revolution.

CHEP’s business model is inherently sustainable. By using our pooled equipment and sustainability solutions our customers’ supply chains become more efficient in terms of cost and use of natural resources. We help customers become part of the circular economy through share and reuse. The more customers use our platforms, the greater the efficiencies.

CHEP plays a major role in advancing the Brambles Group’s Sustainability strategy and achieving its 2025 Sustainability Goals, which are tied to the Sustainable Development Goals set out by the United Nations.

All of our Sustainability activities are built around becoming Planet Positive, Business Positive and Communities Positive. Click here to learn more about sustainability at Brambles. 

Order your CHEP Sustainability Certificate for calendar year 2023 now!

CHEP’s Sustainability Certificate is a valuable information resource which quantifies your organisation’s contribution to a more sustainable supply chain, circular economy and Australia’s 2025 National Packaging Targets. ​​

The data presented includes savings in greenhouse gas emissions, waste to landfill and water use. The CHEP Sustainability Certificate can also help report company environmental savings when using CHEP Timber Pallets, Reusable Plastic Containers (RPCs) and Foldable Bins in the following ways:​

- Inclusion in your APCO Annual Report and Action Plans,​
- In annual and sustainability reports, ​
- On your website, ​
- In your customer conversations,​
- In your marketing and communications material, and​
- Supporting decision making on packaging alternatives​

​​This company-specific Sustainability Certificate uses an independent, peer reviewed ISO standard Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology to determine the environmental benefits between CHEP’s circular solutions and common single-use alternatives over their full life cycle. ​

Request your unique CHEP Sustainability Certificate anytime or to meet the 31 March 2024 APCO reporting deadline, please order by 17 March 2024. ​​

NEW Life Cycle Assessment data on Foldable Bins in the Fresh Produce Industry available now

The independent, peer reviewed ISO standard Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study highlights that CHEP Foldable Bins (FB2, FB3 and FB4) in the Fresh Produce industry help save customers up to 49% in greenhouse gas emissions, 76% less waste to landfill and approximately 83% in water usage. Contact your account manager or our customer service team on 13 CHEP (13 2437) to learn more. ​

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Sustainability certificate presentation to Red Gem from CHEP Australia
Order your CHEP Sustainability Certificate for calendar year 2023 now!

CHEP Australia Sustainability Highlights FY23

Building on our global leadership position in sustainability, CHEP in Australia have achieved tangible progress against its ambitious 2025 sustainability targets.

Access the Sustainability Highlights FY23 for CHEP Australia here
CHEP Australia Sustainability Highlights FY23
CHEP Australia Sustainability Highlights FY23

The APCO Waste Hierarchy and the Circular Economy

The Waste Hierarchy

Our Share and Reuse business model results in waste reduction. In the Waste Hierarchy, this is a superior use of the Earth’s precious resources than waste management by using one-way alternatives. CHEP customers participate in the circular economy, an inherently sustainable model that keeps products and materials in use, designs out waste and pollution, and regenerates natural systems.

Click here to learn more about the circular economy from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Click here to learn more about the waste hierarchy published on page 8 of the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) Sustainable Packaging Guidelines (SPGs)

How we can help you become more sustainable?

Our sustainability programme operates on three levels. Scroll down to see how each one reduces your operational costs and environmental impact.

  • Share and Reuse

    We replace single-use packaging with high quality, reusable pallets and containers to eliminate waste, making your business more efficient and sustainable.

  • Collaboration Projects

    We are more than just a pallet company. Through a full analysis of your supply chains we identify areas where we can work together to address your specific logistical challenges to save you time and money. Contact your account manager or reach out to our team by clicking here.

  • Best Practices

    By partnering with CHEP you get access to our world-class supply chain professionals. Organisations from all across the globe have endorsed our supply chain expertise and the sustainability benefits it brings to our customers.

CHEP share and reuse pooling model

CHEP share and reuse pooling model

How Does CHEP Australia Work
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How Does CHEP Australia Work

Every day CHEP works with customers across consumer goods, retail, fresh produce and other industries to create smart, cost-effective supply chain solutions.

Collaboration Projects in a Zero Waste World

For CHEP, and our customers, we strive for Zero Waste by:

  • Removing physical waste,
  • Eliminating empty transport legs,
  • Cutting out inefficiency and
  • Reducing food waste.

We call this our Zero Waste World program. This is a new working end-to-end collaboration for leading companies committed to creating smarter and more sustainable supply chains.

We work with you, your suppliers, your logistics partners, and others to find opportunities where cooperation can make your business more efficient, effective and sustainable - everyday.

Learn more about Zero Waste World here
Collaboration Projects in a Zero Waste World
Collaboration Projects in a Zero Waste World

Best Practices

We produce world-class best practice guidelines to show you how you can make your business more sustainable and cost-effective. Below you can see just some of the organisations that have endorsed CHEP’s sustainability credentials.

Dow Jones Sustainability Indices

Dow Jones Sustainability Indices
This index judges companies on over 600 environmental, social and corporate governance factors.

The Dow Jones Sustainability Indices serve as benchmarks for investors who integrate sustainability considerations into their portfolios, and provide an effective engagement platform for companies who want to adopt sustainable best practices. Brambles ranked #1 for industry category in Dow Jones Sustainability World Index. Read full story here

EcoVadis

Leader in Carbon Management
Leader in Carbon Management

CHEP Australia is delighted to have achieved Gold Status recognition by EcoVadis for 2022, which places the organisation in the top 6% of assessed businesses. As a global organisation, CHEP is proud to have received multiple awards from EcoVadis, which provides supplier sustainability ratings for global supply chains. EcoVadis’ methodology is built on international corporate social responsibility standards.

Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO)

Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO)
Outstanding zero waste to landfill target achievement

APCO is a co-regulatory, not-for-profit organisation that partners with government and industry to reduce the harmful impact of packaging on the Australian environment.

As a signatory to APCO, CHEP has been involved in a number of events including hosting and addressing its membership-base on sustainability and supply chain initiatives. CHEP Australia can support members by providing strategies to lower the impact of packaging in your APCO Action Plan and provide data to support your baseline and progress against these plans in your APCO Annual Report.

Click here to view CHEP Australia's 2023 Annual Report and Action Plan. 

United Nations

United Nations
The UN Refugee Agency partnered with CHEP because we are a global supply chain leader.

Our Sustainability programme is endorsed by the United Nations (UN) and our 2025 Sustainability Goals are fully aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. CHEP has worked very closely with the United Nations Refugee Agency to improve its supply chains and ensure emergency aid gets to where it’s needed as quickly as possible.

We are also a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact. This is a voluntary corporate citizenship initiative that encourages businesses to align their strategy and operations with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.

Landcare Australia

Landcare Australia
Focused on natural habitat restoration, enhancing biodiversity and building resilience in Australia’s food and farming systems

Landcare plays a leading role in changing Australia’s approach to sustainable agricultural practices, environmental protection, land and water conservation, biodiversity and landscape restoration whilst connecting communities.

The partnership delivers a number of strategic projects that create value for CHEP’s supply chain partners, the environment and regional communities. Landcare Australia’s rigorous project selection criteria ensures the partnership delivers a range of positive outcomes including, natural habitat restoration, enhancing biodiversity and building resilience in Australia’s food and farming systems. These important issues connect CHEP’s supply chain partners to the needs of society and the environment, and support Landcare Australia’s vision for all Australians to actively care for the land and water that sustains us.

Communities Positive

At CHEP we are dedicated to giving back to the communities we operate in. We provide permanent employees three days of Volunteer Leave and make monetary and in-kind donations to various charities and not-for-profit organisations. A lot of our community work is for foodbanks supporting food security for those most in need.

2023 APCO Awards - Packaging Future Award Winner and Industry Sector Award Winner

At the 2023 APCO Awards, CHEP Australia was a finalist in 4 categories and proud winner of two awards: Our Packaging Future Award for the Reuse category recognised CHEP’s investment in our Service Centre network over the last 3 years to provide the infrastructure to facilitate the circular economy as well as being awarded winner of the Logistics and Warehousing Industry Sector Award for the 6th year running with our leading APCO reporting performance in this category. 

The annual APCO Awards celebrates Australian organisations leading the way in sustainable packaging design and innovation and industry’s commitment to delivering the 2025 National Packaging Targets.

2023 APCO Awards - Packaging Future Award Winner and Industry Sector Award Winner
2023 APCO Awards

Case Study: Fruitful Partnership with CHEP Helps Montague Provide Foodbank with Fresh Nutritional Produce

Through the collaborative partnership between Montague, CHEP and Foodbank, a zero-waste approach ensures that entire crops can be utilised, and good produce eaten or repurposed into meals or juice, thus extending its shelf life and diverted waste from landfill.​​​ 

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Fruitful Partnership with CHEP Helps Montague Provide Foodbank with Fresh Nutritional Produce
Montague, Foodbank and CHEP band together to address food security

Customers in Australia by sharing and reusing our pallets and RPCs have saved:

  • 850,178 litres of water equivalent to 340 olympic swimming pools
  • 842,948 tonnes of CO2-e* equivalent to 5.7 billion+ kms driven by the average Australian car p.a.**
  • 548,828 tonnes of waste equivalent to 78,404 garbage trucks full of waste

*Environmental benefit metrics are directly linked to volume of products issued. FY23 environmental benefits reflect an updated LCA.
**Based on data from the National Transport Commission.

Source: CHEP Australia Sustainability Highlights FY23
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