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.