Smarter with plastic

Customers buying beverage products may be surprised to find that the cap no longer comes completely off the carton or bottle. The reason for this are the new requirements that are now visible in the everyday life of consumers in Finland. At the same ...

At the end of 2022, K Group's grocery trade division made two environmental commitments: as part of the SUP Green Deal, K Group's grocery trade will reduce its consumption of single-use plastic packaging, while in the food industry's material efficie...

Households are increasingly recycling plastic, which makes it possible to innovate new products to be sold at stores. K-Rauta has added to its selection a backyard composter created by three Finnish operators. Made from recycled plastic, the composte...

Kesko’s Building and Technical Trade division is the first operator in the trade sector to join the voluntary Green Deal of Construction Plastics. The division includes the technical wholesale company Onninen and the K-Rauta chain, which serves both ...

The fresh fish sold at K-food stores’ service counters is transported in boxes made from expanded polystyrene (EPS). More than a million boxes are used each year. K Group is the first retail sector company in Finland to pilot the recycling of fish bo...

Recyclable cardboard boxes will replace the plastic buckets that have been used to transport Pirkka tulips. This will reduce the use of plastic by 27 tonnes each year, corresponding to around 1.3 million plastic bags. The replacement of plastic trans...

New packaging innovations are being introduced all the time, and plastic is being replaced with bio-based solutions, for example. Consumers consider bio-based packaging to be a more environmentally friendly alternative, but a survey carried out by K ...