Sustainability

At Australian Venue Co, we are working towards ambitious goals to improve the sustainability of our venues across Australia.
We’re working on sustainability initiatives across five key areas, led by our dedicated Sustainability Project Manager.

1. Energy
Reducing energy usage & creating an energy-conscious culture.

2. Waste
Introducing organic waste management and working towards diverting 50%+ of our waste from landfills.

3. Compostable consumables
Eliminating single-use plastics from our venues and replacing every single-use item for our customers with a compostable alternative

4. Sustainable Food & Beverage
Increasing our procurement of sustainable food & beverage products

5. Carbon Offset
Opportunities to reduce and offset our carbon emissions

We’re exploring ways we can reduce waste, and re-use and recycle in our venues and offices every day to help us tread more gently on the planet.

We’re rolling out LED lighting at our venues across Australia in 2022. LED lights are significantly more energy-efficient and with lower carbon emissions than traditional fluorescent lighting.

Around 50% (103) of our venues have been upgraded so far with LED lights replacing old lighting, with works continuing through 2022-23. Already reducing our electricity related emissions by around 800 tonnes of co2 per year.

We’re dialing up the number of plant-based menu options on our menus. Meat-free alternatives are now widely available for two of our most popular pub classics: our Eggplant Parmas & Beyond Burgers have been an instant hit!

Straws: By using paper straws, in the last 12 months we have avoided 7 million plastic straws.

Food containers: Last year we used over 3 million single use plastic food containers in our kitchens. In 2022 we decided we needed to change. We’ve now had over 190 venues switch to reusable containers. Over the next 12 months this will reduce around 3.5 million plastic container from ending up in landfill and we are continuing to further eliminate plastics from our procurement.

Currently we have 6 of our venues using onsite solar power, renewably powering around 20% of their energy needs. That’s around 73 days of the year powered by the sun per year! We’re continuing to work on expanding our solar powered sites through 2023 and beyond.