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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.
The share of recyclable packagings was 99 per cent in Apetit products: Apetit has changed during 2025 all the packaging materials of Apetit products sold through retail channels to recyclable.
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.
All Apetit frozen soups, vegetable patties, and fish patties are packaged in cardboard. The cardboard packaging can be sorted for cardboard recycling according to the instructions on the package, rinsed and flattened if necessary. With regard to paperboard packaging, Apetit has switched to using only PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification) certified paperboard during 2025.
Plastics are used as packaging material in many Apetit products: for example, all frozen vegetable mixes come in plastic packaging. All plastic packaging of Apetit products should be sorted into plastic recycling. The glass part of the Neito rapeseed oil bottles should be sorted into glass recycling. The metal cap can be sorted into metal recycling.
Apetit Kotimainen Rapeseed Oils are packaged in plastic bottles, and Neito rapeseed oils in glass bottles. The plastic Apetit oil bottles made of PET plastic can be sorted into plastic recycling together with their caps.
The packaging of Apetit Kotimainen Rapeseed Oil was renewed in connection with the introduction of a new bottling line at Apetit’s vegetable oil plant in Kantvik. Thanks to the new bottling line, significantly less plastic is used in the oil bottles.