Australia experienced unprecedented extreme weather during the 2019/2020 summer which saw unstoppable ‘megafires’ burn more than 12 million hectares over four months. During the Christmas holiday break CHEP Australia’s Supply Chain team immediately answered a call to action to support the Bush Fire Relief efforts including CHEP employees volunteering with emergency services. The Supply Chain team mobilised well above and beyond to open plants and move loads of bins to the local Foodbank warehouses and help those in a desperate situation.

CHEP Australia in partnership with Foodbank supplied 500 pallets and 1,100 bins into warehouses across three bushfire ravaged states to receive the significant volume of community and CHEP customer food donations for the purposes of creating emergency food relief packages. CHEP products featured in the background of many media reports during this period displaying a humble but absolutely essential presence.

In March alone, 473,000kgs of food and groceries were delivered to bushfire affected areas.