- All napkins, tray liners and Kid’s Meal bags are made from 100 percent recycled content.
- Chick-fil-A foam cups are made from polystyrene, which, unlike traditional cold paper cups, can be recycled where facilities exist.
- Currently recycles our foam cups in 25 percent of our free-standing locations and are actively expanding the program to 80 percent of those locations by the end of 2014 and aim to be chain wide 2015.
- For years, many of the restaurants have incorporated a more robust recycling program that not only includes recycling our foam cups, but also card-board, plastic films and bags.
- Continuously reviewing overall packaging strategy and work with our suppliers to find the best recycling methods to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills.
- The recycled foam cups an become everyday products people need and use like park benches, insulation and molding, picture frames and pens.
- Foam cup recycling is a major focus area in our environmental journey and is where Chick-fil-A can have the most immediate impact.
- In 2012-2013, approximately 1,200 of our restaurants received energy efficiency retrofits, which included the installation of more efficient lighting systems, energy saving refrigeration motors and faucet water restrictors.
- Each retrofit resulted in a reduction of 10 percent water and 5 percent energy per location.
- LEED restaurants feature natural daylight in the dining area and windows in the kitchen, as well as the installation of energy efficient appliances. As a result, these locations use 14 percent less energy versus industry standards.
- Materials used in construction at LEED locations are specially chosen to not emit harmful gasses. As a result, they have 30 percent more fresh air than a conventional building.
- 20 percent of the dollars spent on building materials for Chick-fil-A LEED locations are spent on products with recycled content. In addition, more than half of construction waste was diverted from the land-fill. Cardboard and foam cups are being recycled, which reduces about 40 percent of this restaurant’s land-fill volume.
- We continually select building materials with recycled content for things such as tile floors and the stainless steel used throughout the dining room.