Smarter with plastic

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...

Cosmetic products often use small microbeads that are able to pass through wastewater treatment facilities to water bodies. Microplastics are a risk to water bodies and elsewhere in the environment due to their longevity. In 2017, K Group fulfilled i...

Plastic causes problems when it ends up in water bodies and elsewhere in the environment. K Group is actively developing completely new types of operational models in order to reduce plastic waste. Read on for five innovative methods that K Group use...

It has been a year since ESSI, the first Finnish carrier bag for a circular economy, was introduced in stores. Made from plastics recycled by households, Pirkka ESSI circular bags give shoppers an alternative to recycled plastic bags. K-Group activel...

Oceans full of plastics, shoreline waste, microfibres from washing fleece garments. These are topics most of us will have come across recently. Plastics are pointed out as the main culprit, something to be urgently eliminated. But is it really the ma...