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INTERREG Baltic Sea Region Change(K)now Yleinen

The food service industry’s transition towards sustainable food packaging

The enablers of systemic transition in circular and sustainable food packaging practices in institutional catering within the Baltic Sea Region

ChatGPT produced the below literature review after being prompted with the Lahti pilot actions, results and findings. The literature review points out the key factors that facilitate circular food packaging systems in institutional catering such as:

  • Policy and Regulatory Enablers
  • Sustainable Procurement Practices
  • Technological and System Innovations
  • Infrastructure Readiness and Investment
  • Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration
  • Behavioral and Cultural Factors

Literature review Conclusion
Enabling a systemic shift to circular packaging in institutional catering requires a combination of policy, practice, infrastructure and culture. In the Baltic Sea Region, emerging evidence shows that progress comes when municipalities set ambitious targets, embed sustainability in procurement, foster innovative reuse systems, and actively engage all stakeholders (schools, suppliers, NGOs, citizens) in the transition. EU and national-level policies create the framework, while practical enablers (e.g. tender criteria) bring the circular solutions into daily operations. Ultimately, attitudes must change alongside systems – hence education and visible
commitments are also key. Together, these enablers form an ecosystem that can transform school and hospital catering into models of sustainable, circular consumption in the BSR.

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The value chain of the food service industry and the Lahti pilot’s areas of intervention

The food service industry value chain describes the sequence of activities and processes involved in delivering food services to customers. Here’s a simplified structure for institutional catering:

  1. Procurement & Sourcing: Raw materials, food ingredients, beverages, packaging, and supplies.
  2. Inbound Logistics:  Transporting food and materials to kitchens or service sites.
  3. Meal Production / Kitchen Operations: Cooking, preparing, and portioning meals.
  4. Meal Delivery & Distribution: Transporting prepared meals to service points (canteens, classrooms, wards, kiosks).
  5. Serving & Consumption: Serving meals to customers, dine-in or takeaway, using trays, plates, cups, etc.
  6. Waste Management & Cleaning: Handling leftover food, washing reusable items, disposing of packaging.

Lahti piloted steps no. 1: Procurement and Sourcing, and 2: Inbound Logistics.

Acknowledgement

Change(K)now! project is co-funded by Interreg Baltic Sea Region. The project’s main objective is a mindset change from single-use to circular or multiple-use of food delivery systems in cities and residents of the Baltic Sea Region.

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PoliRuralPlus Yleinen

PoliRuralPlus pyytää tarjouksia 10 000 EUR projektille

Tavoitteet

Avoin tarjouspyyntö kohdistuu toimiin, jotka koskevat maaseudun ja kaupunkien välisiä yhteyksiä ja joissa hyödynnetään hankkeessa kehitettyjä tieto- ja viestintätekniikan välineitä kestävän kasvun ja innovoinnin edistämiseksi.

Tarjouspyynnössä haetaan erityisesti projekteja, jotka:

  • Rakentavat siltoja maaseudun ja kaupunkien välisten erojen ja kuilujen välille ja edistävät innovatiivisia liiketoimintamallien syntymistä.
  • Edistävät maaseudun ja kaupunkien sidosryhmien välistä sosiaalista ja taloudellista yhteenkuuluvuutta.
  • Edistävät PoliRuralPlus- ja muita ratkaisuja ja tukevat niiden validointia, laajentamista ja/tai täytäntöönpanoa PoliRuralPlus-pilottialueilla.

Mallusjoen pilotin yleistavoite

Mallusjoen alueen pilotin tavoitteena PoliRuralPlus hankkeessa on rakentaa maaseudun tapahtumateollisuuden ekosysteemi, joka edistää yhteisön sitoutumista, julkisen ja yksityisen sektorin kumppanuutta ja taloudellisia mahdollisuuksia maaseudun tapahtumien avulla.

Pilottihankkeella pyritään houkuttelemaan kävijöitä kaupunkialueilta ja edistämään maaseutualueiden yhteisöllistä kehitystä vahvistamalla ja hyödyntämällä alueen luonnon- ja inhimillisiä voimavaroja, innovatiivisuutta ja luovaa sektoria.

Mallusjoen pilotin erityistavoitteet

  • Maaseudun tapahtumateollisuuden ekosysteemin rakentaminen
  • Yhteisön sitoutuminen ja yhteistyö hyvinvoinnin edistämiseksi
  • Maaseudun tapahtumien tarjoamat taloudelliset mahdollisuudet
  • Yhteisön tilojen uudistaminen vihreäksi kulttuurikeskukseksi uuden eurooppalaisen Bauhaus-politiikan mukaisesti.
  • Kaupunkilaisvierailijoiden houkutteleminen maaseudulle

Tarjousprosessin aikataulu

ToimintoPäivä
Tarjouspyynnön julkaisu31.1.2025
Tarjousten toimittaminen31.1.2025 – 31.3.2025
Tarjousten arviointiHuhtikuu 2025
Tulosten julkaisuToukokuu 2025
Projektin kesto6 kk, kesäkuu-marraskuu

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Maaseudun kehittämisen tarjouspyyntö

PoliRuralPlus-hankkeessa järjestetään neljä avointa hakukierrosta, joiden avulla etsitään ja rahoitetaan uusia ideoita maaseudun ja kaupunkien kehittämiseksi. Tavoitteena on laajentaa hankkeen vaikutusta ja kokeilla uusia menetelmiä, teknologioita ja toimintatapoja.

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PoliRuralPlus pyytää tarjouksia 10 000 EUR projektille

Tavoitteet Avoin tarjouspyyntö kohdistuu toimiin, jotka koskevat maaseudun ja kaupunkien välisiä yhteyksiä ja joissa hyödynnetään hankkeessa kehitettyjä tieto- ja viestintätekniikan välineitä kestävän kasvun ja innovoinnin edistämiseksi. Tarjouspyynnössä haetaan erityisesti projekteja, jotka: Mallusjoen pilotin yleistavoite Mallusjoen alueen pilotin tavoitteena PoliRuralPlus hankkeessa on rakentaa maaseudun tapahtumateollisuuden ekosysteemi, joka edistää yhteisön sitoutumista, julkisen ja yksityisen sektorin kumppanuutta ja…

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Mallusjoki pilot’s Newsflash no. 3

Newsflash no. 3 highlights the testing of the new Mallusjoki Youth Society’s Takkari Club event products for autumn 2024, the strategic cooperation with Päijänne-LEADER’s Habitability at Päijät-Häme project and, as a preliminary information, the project’s two AI-based products. Here you can find all published newsflashes….

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Mallusjoki pilot’s Newsflash no. 2

PoliRuralPlus, an EU-funded project focused on sustainable rural development, is underway with a pilot programme in Mallusjoki. This pilot programme aims to create a regional vision 2040 and a development strategy, focusing on the Rural Events Industry as a key theme.

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Mallusjoki pilot’s Newsflashes no. 1-6

PoliRuralPlus, an EU-funded project focused on sustainable rural development, is underway with a pilot programme in Mallusjoki. This pilot programme, with 28 months remaining, aims to create a regional vision 2040 and a development strategy, focusing on the Rural Events Industry as a key theme. A diverse stakeholder group of over 20 people has been formed, and the…

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Innovation platform – Mallusjoki Summer Festival

This year, the Mallusjoki Summer Festival – Takinkääntöviikko – is being used as an innovation platform for the Rural Event Industry. The platform provides a test-bed for real-life experiments and a relaxed environment for a multi-actor approach to promote interaction with stakeholders and ecosystem players who come to the festival from both rural and urban…

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Bridging PoliRural and PoliRuralPlus

In the previous Horizon2020 PoliRural project, we implemented and learnt from the Multi-Actor Approach (MAA) and intensive stakeholder involvement.

In the new Horizon Europe funded rural development project – PoliRuralPlus – we are continuing the work of PoliRural. We want to deepen and strengthen the Multi-Actor Approach and stakeholder involvement in the design and implementation…

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INTERREG Baltic Sea Region Change(K)now Yleinen

Change(K)Now!

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Acknowledgement

Change(K)now! project is co-funded by Interreg Baltic Sea Region. The project’s main objective is a mindset change from single-use to circular or multiple-use of food delivery systems in cities and residents of the Baltic Sea Region.

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PoliRuralPlus Yleinen

Mallusjoki pilot’s Newsflash no. 3

Newsflash no. 3 highlights the testing of the new Mallusjoki Youth Society’s Takkari Club event products for autumn 2024, the strategic cooperation with Päijänne-LEADER’s Habitability at Päijät-Häme project and, as a preliminary information, the project’s two AI-based products.

Here you can find all published newsflashes….

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Lahti Pilot Action Plan for Industrial Catering

Change(K)now! aims to promote a change of mindset in food supply systems from disposable to reusable crockery and multi-purpose packaging. The Lahti pilot project focuses on industrial catering.

The third SPRINT workshop was organised by the Lahti pilot team in early September 2024. The workshop brought together stakeholders from the entire institutional catering value chain.

The stakeholders are shown in the two pictures below are as follows: Suomen Pakkausyhdistys ry – Toimitusjohtaja Antro Säilä, Palvelutukku (PATU) – Juho Stolt, Päijät-Hämeen Ateriapalvelut Oy – Jukka Turta, Salpaus koulutuskeskus – Marko Viljamaa ja Sari Kovanen, Hollola municipality institutional catering – Helena Simolin, Lahti city procurement – Tarinka Ringvall.

Working area of the workshop

The sketch below illustrates the entire institutional catering value chain in the Lahti environment. The sketch provided a framework for the discussions in the Lahti workshop.

The workshop participants discussed the following two challenges. The discussion touched on the current state, the goal, the means of change, the responsibilities for action and the risks.

  1. Reducing, rethinking and redesigning suppliers’ food packaging
  2. Re-use of suppliers’ food packaging

Conclusions of the Workshop

The Lahti pilot aims to intervene in public procurement practices and identify sustainable practices for wholesalers, promoting transparency and cooperation throughout the value chain.

The pilot aims to identify effective measures through experiments targeting the upstream part of the institutional catering value chain.

The pilot aims to identify measures to reduce packaging waste by 5% by 2030, 10% by 2035 and 15% by 2040 as as stated in the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation Directive (PPWD). The baseline is 6000 kg packaging waste per one million platefuls.

The figure below summarises the experiments and the target area or target group.

Acknowledgement

Change(K)now! project is co-funded by Interreg Baltic Sea Region. The project’s main objective is a mindset change from single-use to circular or multiple-use of food delivery systems in cities and residents of the Baltic Sea Region.

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PoliRuralPlus Yleinen

Mallusjoki pilot’s Newsflash no. 2

PoliRuralPlus, an EU-funded project focused on sustainable rural development, is underway with a pilot programme in Mallusjoki. This pilot programme aims to create a regional vision 2040 and a development strategy, focusing on the Rural Events Industry as a key theme.

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INTERREG Baltic Sea Region Change(K)now Yleinen

SPRINT workshop at Lahti

Change(K)now! aims to promote a change of mindset in food supply systems from disposable to reusable crockery and multi-purpose packaging. The Lahti pilot project focuses on industrial catering.

The project uses the SPRINT methodology to prepare the action plan for the Lahti pilot.

The SPRINT methodology has been developed by the project partner Gate21 from Denmark. Gate21 staff also act as internal mentors for partners running a pilot in the project.

The third SPRINT workshop was organised by Lahti Pilot in early September 2024. The workshop brought together stakeholders from the entire institutional catering value chain. The stakeholders represented the packaging industry, wholesalers, production kitchen, service kitchen, city administration and public procurement.

The sketch below illustrates the entire institutional catering value chain in the Lahti environment. The sketch provided a framework for the discussions in the Lahti workshop.

Acknowledgement

Change(K)now! project is co-funded by Interreg Baltic Sea Region. The project’s main objective is a mindset change from single-use to circular or multiple-use of food delivery systems in cities and residents of the Baltic Sea Region.

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INTERREG Baltic Sea Region Change(K)now Yleinen

Change(K)Now! meets in Vilnius, Lithuania

Change(K)now! aims to promote a change of mindset in food supply systems from disposable to reusable crockery and packaging for different types of use.

The INTERREG Baltic Sea Region programme is funding the project activities, which are being carried out by more than 20 partners.

The purpose of the 2nd General Assembly was the finalisation of the draft solutions and test plans for 4 thematic pilots.

Dinner together in the old town to encourage networking and partnerships.

Acknowledgement

Change(K)now! project is co-funded by Interreg Baltic Sea Region. The project’s main objective is a mindset change from single-use to circular or multiple-use of food delivery systems in cities and residents of the Baltic Sea Region.

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Horizon2020-CITIES2030 Yleinen

Cities2030 Results and Exploitation Plans

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PoliRuralPlus Yleinen

Mallusjoki pilot’s Newsflashes no. 1-6

PoliRuralPlus, an EU-funded project focused on sustainable rural development, is underway with a pilot programme in Mallusjoki. This pilot programme, with 28 months remaining, aims to create a regional vision 2040 and a development strategy, focusing on the Rural Events Industry as a key theme.

A diverse stakeholder group of over 20 people has been formed, and the project is exploring the motivations of event attendees and the experiences and insight of community volunteers.

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