Smarter with plastic

K Group, Lassila & Tikanoja and Orthex join forces in a circular economy experiment to give waste buckets a new life as flower pots. With this experiment the companies wish to encourage Finnish operators to objectively identify their waste material f...

During 2019, K Group has been making changes to the packaging of its own brand products, significantly reducing the amount of plastic. The change in the packaging of Pirkka mini plum tomatoes alone will save 45 tonnes of plastic per year, equal to 2....

K Group’s foodservice wholesaler Kespro sells more than 100,000 packages of spices every year. Therefore, the choice of packaging has a big impact. By switching to cardboard packaging, Kespro is reducing its plastic consumption, while also reducing t...

Shoppers in Tampere now have a new sustainable alternative for carrying their groceries.

K Group, Unilever Finland, Metsä Tissue, Encore Ympäristöpalvelut and Orthex are launching an experiment with LOOP Ventures, a circular economy accelerator, to test an entirely new recycling model for household plastic packaging. The purpose of this ...

The plastic stems of Pirkka cotton buds will be replaced with paper ones and the plastic packaging with paperboard. Removing plastic from Pirkka cotton buds is one of the measures listed in K Group’s plastics policy, which aims to reduce single-use p...

Many of us put our groceries in a plastic bag at the checkout out of habit. At K-Market Kalevantori, you can’t do that anymore. Like all K-food stores in the town of Kerava, K-Market Kalevantori is part of the ‘Plastic bag free Kerava’ initiative. We...

Plastic waste is a global problem that requires action from all of us to save our planet. K Group bears its responsibility as a retailer, and has now joined the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment.

Plastic is useful for storage and packaging purposes, but it causes problems when it ends up in water bodies and elsewhere in the environment. K Group is actively testing and developing new ways, big and small, to reduce plastic waste and promote pla...

K-Market Ruokakippari in Herttoniemenranta, Helsinki, is encouraging its customers to cut down on the consumption of small thin plastic bags most often used for loose fruit and vegetables, by charging 5 cents per bag. To support the work to protect t...

Consumers want to make sustainable choices. This can be seen every day in food stores, where customers increasingly pay attention not only to what they should eat but also to the food packaging. Concerns over the amount of plastic waste in our seas a...

The Finnish Commerce Federation and the Ministry of the Environment together with retail sector companies have launched a consumer campaign to reduce the consumption of plastic bags. Naturally, K Group is also taking part in this positive initiative.

The consumption of plastic bags among K Group customers has decreased in relative terms over the past year across Finland. To further reduce the consumption of plastics, K Group adopts a new pricing model for K-food stores, in which plastic, paper an...