Smart & Lean Hub Oy has published a new result package presenting the outcomes and lessons learned from the Lahti pilot implemented within the Change(K)now! project.
The Lahti Sustainable Food Packaging Transition Model brings together practical results, methods, and evidence on how public procurement and institutional catering can support the transition towards more sustainable food packaging systems.
The result package provides an overview of the full transition journey – from identifying the challenge and engaging stakeholders to developing procurement criteria, testing feasibility in a large-scale municipal production kitchen environment, and identifying pathways for wider replication.
The package includes:
- an executive summary of the Lahti Sustainable Food Packaging Transition Model
- a full pilot report covering pre-assessment, stakeholder engagement, and feasibility testing
- supporting evidence reports and practical lessons learned
- insights for municipalities, public procurement organisations, and institutional catering operators aiming to reduce unnecessary packaging waste and improve circularity
Explore the full result package on the Smart & Lean Hub website:
https://smartlean.fi/lahti-sustainable-food-packaging-transition-model-results-package/
To improve long-term accessibility, openness, and reuse of the results, the Lahti pilot outcomes have also been published through Zenodo, an open research repository supporting findable and reusable project results:
Lahti Sustainable Food Packaging Transition Model: A Public Procurement and Institutional Catering Pilot Result from Change(K)now!
Zenodo record: https://zenodo.org/records/20777075
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20777075
The result package contributes to sharing practical evidence on how municipalities can move from circular economy ambitions towards concrete implementation through procurement, collaboration, and evidence-based transition management.








