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The packaging of a food product is primarily intended to protect the shelf life of the product and to ensure product safety. Packaging also plays a significant role in reducing food waste.
Apetit uses mainly plastics and paperboards as product packaging materials. In addition, glass is used in Neito rapeseed oil bottles. Wood is used in the palletised transport of product batches.
Plastics are used as packaging material in many Apetit products: for example, all frozen vegetable mixes come in plastic packaging. Apetit rapeseed oils are also packaged into plastic bottles.
More and more Apetit products are being packaged in recyclable packaging, as, for example, wok products, 300 g frozen vegetables, peas and spinach were switched to recyclable packaging in 2024. The change increased the use of recyclable packaging materials on average by more than 40,000 kilos per year.
Apetit’s soup packaging, the patty containers and some of the frozen pizza packaging were switched to packaging made of PEFC-certified paperboard. The remaining frozen pizza packaging will be switched to PEFC-certified packaging during 2025, after which all paperboard used in the packaging will be PEFC-certified.
The Apetit Kotimainen Rapeseed Oil packaging was renewed in connection with the commissioning of the new bottling line at Apetit’s Kantvik vegetable oil milling plant. Thanks to the new bottling line,
significantly less plastic is used for oil bottles.
In Apetit products sold in retail stores, 40 per cent of packaging materials used by Apetit are renewable. When it comes to plastic packaging, 50 per cent are made of recyclable materials. In Apetit’s corporate responsibility programme, one of the goals is to increase the use of recyclable packaging materials to 100 per cent. Also the labelling on packaging has been developed in connection with labelling updates, especially with regard to recycling instructions.
The reported amount of packaging materials used increased, particularly due to the large volume of wooden pallets purchased.
Apetit reports the amounts of packaging material it puts out into the market in accordance with the EU Packaging Directive and pays recovery fees for the organisation of material recycling.