Brisbane Racing Club not horsing around with recycling
Eagle Farm Racecourse, one of the Brisbane Racing Club's premier race courses, is encouraging racing patrons to put their money on the environment and Do The Right Thing, Use the Right Bin.
Funded by Brisbane Racing Club Ltd (BRC) and the Australian Food and Grocery Council's Packaging Stewardship Forum's (PSF), 100 new waste and recycling bins have been installed at BRC's three venues - Eagle Farm Racecourse, Doomben Racecourse and the Brisbane Racing Sports & Social Club - with each bin carrying the PSF's Do The Right Thing, Use the Right Bin recycling message.
The initiative will provide away from home recycling opportunities for over 450,000 visitors at over 90 BRC race days and events each year and will divert 300 tonnes of aluminium cans, PET and glass bottles from landfill annually ï¾ enough to fill almost 42,000 household wheelie bins!
Brisbane Racing Club Chief Operating Officer, Darren Condon, said the BRC racecourses and Sports Club were high traffic environments which generate a lot of waste, stating "our new waste and recycling bins strategically placed in high traffic areas will help our consumers to recycle and really make a difference.
"This major recycling initiative fits with our vision and commitment to helping the community and reducing our carbon footprint."
To assist with the recycling initiative, SITA Environmental Solutions Australia, recycling contractors to the venue, agreed to carry the PSF's Do the Right Thing, Use the Right Bin message on their bins.
General Manager of the PSF Jenny Pickles said the aim of the program is to get people recycling just as effectively out and about as they do when they're at home using their kerbside collection systems.
"Through well placed infrastructure, good promotion and our message of Do the Right Thing, Use the Right Bin we have shown we can deliver effective away from home recycling systems in public places, with minimal contamination."
BRC is one of sixteen well known sporting and entertainment venues participating in the PSF's away from home recycling program, with installations already completed at other Queensland venues (some in partnership with the Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management). These venues include Dairy Farmers Stadium, Skilled Park Stadium, The Gabba, Suncorp Stadium, Carrara Stadium, Ballymore Stadium, Wet'n'Wild Waterworld, Movie World, Dreamworld, Seaworld, Currumbin Bird and Wildlife Sanctuary, Cairns Convention Centre, Gold Coast Convention Centre, Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre and Mackay Exhibition and Convention Centre.
The PSF is a forum of the Australian Food and Grocery Council. It works with government and industry partners across Australia to deliver recycling, litter reduction and education programs on behalf of its members, Australia's major beverage companies and their packaging suppliers. PSF members are Amcor, Bundaberg Brewed Drinks, Coca-Cola Amatil, Fosters, Golden Circle, Lion Nathan, Owens-Illinois, Schweppes and Visy.
For more information, contact Sally Haysom of the Australian Food and Grocery Council on 02 6270 9018/0438 284 195.
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