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Sustainability acts in stores

Shop-specific acts of sustainability per category:

Charity fundraisers and events

Emotion

Emotion donates unsaleable but still usable cosmetics to Hyvä Arki organisation.

Finnkino

Finnkino collaborates with Mieli ry by participating in Mielirauha fundraiser. Customers can buy green Mielinauha ribbons from Finnkino theatres during the fundraiser by doing so they support mental health work. Finnkino buys ribbons for all its own employees.

Flamingo Spa

Flamingo Spa collaborates with various organisations to support e.g. low-income families by offering them free or heavily discounted waterpark experiences. Flamingo Spa has also organised a free day at the waterpark for children from Children’s Homes.

K-Citymarket

K-Citymarket participates in Joulupuu campaign during the Christmas season to donate Christmas gifts to low-income families.

Marimekko

Marimekko is an official Helsinki Pride partner.

Musti & Mirri

Musti & Mirri organises fundraisers and donates expired food products to Helsinki Humane Society HESY ry.

Partioaitta

Partioaitta organises an annual jacket collection on the Night of the Homeless. You can participate by donating jackets which are in good condition at a time communicated by Partioaitta. The jackets will be donated to homeless people.

PETRIFUN Store

PETRIFUN Store organises a “replace your shirts” campaign 1-2 times a year. You will get a discount on a new product if you bring in a recyclable shirt in exchange. The old shirts will be donated to charity. The time period of the campaign varies from one year to another.

Ruohonjuuri

Ruohonjuuri organizes rubbish pick-up events, where they invite their customers to collect rubbish together with them. The event is often held near Jumbo shopping centre and Ruohonjuuri supplies bags, gloves, snacks and good company for the participants.

In addition, Ruohonjuuri chooses four so-called “good products” each year. Sales revenue of these products from three months’ time period is donated to a chosen charity.

Sinsay

Sinsay participates in Hope’s Joulupuu collection each Christmas.

Stockmann

Stockmann collaborates with Save the Children fundraiser.

The Body Shop

The bonuses of The Body Shop’s loyal customer program can be donated to charity. The Body Shop sells certain products of which a part of the sales is donated to a charity. The Body Shop also organises campaigns for varioius societal problems. In addition, The Body Shop participates in several charity raffles to help, e.g. homeless dogs in Bulgaria.

The Body Shop collects money each Christmas for a different charity. Proportion of the gifts customers purchase from The Body Shop is donated directly to a charity.

UFF

UFF’s activities include providing domestic environmental services in the form of clothing collection, supporting development cooperation in Africa and Asia, and communicating about the foundation’s environmental and development cooperation. UFF collects funds by selling used clothes and establishing financial partnerships for the benefit of development cooperation programs. The collection campaigns are organized regularly in UFF stores where customers have the opportunity to donate the amount of their choice to a chosen development aid at the time of purchase. UFF raised funds for children’s education in India in Januray 2024.

Recycling and take-back services

Clas Ohlson

Clas Ohlson takes back empty ink cartridges. If you are a Club Clas member, you will get credit for the cartridges and you can use the credit for your in-shop purchases. Clas Ohlson also offers recycling services for lightbulbs, fluorescent tubes and small electronic devices.

Elisa

When you buy a new phone, Elisa gives you credit if you recycle your old phone. The credit varies based on the condition and model of the old phone. Where possible, the phone will be repaired and will receive a new, happy owner. Phones that cannot be repaired will be sent to Elisa’s partners who collect the raw materials from the phones.

Emmy-myyntilaatikko

Emmy is Finland’s largest second-hand online shop for brand clothing. Jumbo has an Emmy-box in the following location:

  • Stockmann Jumbo, 2nd floor, next to the cash register at the children’s department. The box is emptied every Tuesday.

Emotion

Emotion accepts customers’ expired perfumes and nail polishes. The nail polishes are processed in a high-temperature incineration oven at a Fortum plant designed for processing hazardous waste.

Fonum

You can recycle responsibly and securely by bringing your old phone or tablet to the Fonum store. Fonum buys used phones, including those with defects. The battery may be at the end of its life or the screen may be cracked. Fonum offers compensation for used phones and iPads, the amount of which is determined by the condition and model of the device. Fonum also accepts all old phones that no longer have any use value and takes care of their proper recycling free of charge.

Halti

The Halti shop accepts used Halti outdoor clothing. Clothes which are in good condition are donated to those in need through Hope ry and Kotimaanapu. When you bring in Halti’s outdoor clothes for recycling, Halti gives you a 10% discount on a regular priced item. Items that are no longer fit for recycling are donated as raw material for reuse.

H&M

H&M collects textiles regardless of the brand and condition. They are either reused or sent to recycling. H&M members earn points for recycling and get a discount coupon.

Jumbon Apteekki

Jumbon Apteekki accepts household medical waste.

K-Citymarket

You can recycle old ink cartridges, batteries, small household appliances (e-waste) and lightbulbs at K-Citymarket.

Partioaitta

Partioaitta offers recycling services together with I:CO for used outdoor clothing and shoes.

Polarn O. Pyret

Polarn O. Pyret offers second-hand services that allow their members to bring their used PO.P clothing for sale in the store. PO.P offers their members a discount coupon in return.

Silmäasema

Silmäasema collects used glasses.

Specsavers

Specsavers accepts old glasses for reuse.

Stadium

Together with Human Bridge, Stadium want to give new life to products that their customers no longer need. You can bring sports gear and textiles regardless of their condition to Stadium’s re:activate collection box, and they will forward them to those in need. In this way you can give someone else a chance for a better life while protecting the earth. All recycled products are either sent to be reused or recycled.

Stockmann

Stockmann has a recycling point for textile waste. You can bring the textile waste in a plastic bag to the collection trolley at Stockmann (2nd floor, children’s department).

Textile waste refers to worn, faded and otherwise unusable clothing and household textiles as long as they are dry and clean. Small, dry stains do not matter. Jackets, trousers, skirts, shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths can be brought in for textile waste collection in tightly sealed plastic bags. All textile waste is sorted, processed and reused as raw material for new textiles. For hygiene reasons, underwear, socks, pillows, duvets, padding, rugs, belts, bags or shoes or textiles that are damp, oily, mouldy, heavily scented or infested with bugs are not accepted. These can be sorted as mixed waste.

Suomalainen Kirjakauppa

Suomalainen Kirjakauppa will find a new home for your book. You can return a new book you bought from Suomalainen Kirjakauppa and as a thank you receive a €5 voucher for your next book purchase. The book must be a standard-priced, Finnish fiction or non-fiction book published during the current year. The book can be returned with a receipt within 30 days of the purchase. This does not apply to paperbacks, children’s and youth books, or textbooks.

Synsam

Synsam collects old glasses. The raw materials are recycled and used for manufacturing new glasses. The glasses are manufactured in Synsam’s production and innovation center in Frösön, Sweden, which is the only one of its kind in the Nordics.

UFF

Customers can bring usable, intact and clean clothes, shoes, bags, home textiles, belts and other accessories as well as toys and sports equipment to the UFF store for the clothing collection.
If you are unsure whether your donation is a usable garment or disposable textile, you can bring it to UFF’s collection container or store. UFF manages the sorting of clothes and textiles and directs them to be reused as raw material. Professional sorting reduces resource waste.

Yeppo & Soonsoo

Yeppo & Soonsoo collects empty cosmetics containers. When you return an empty cosmetics container, you will receive a 10% discount for each recycled container.

Stores providing products or services that promote circular economy

The following stores have announced providing products or services that promote circular economy.

Caffi

At Caffi, we are protecting nature one disposable cup or bag at a time by offering our customers a discount for the following good deeds:

  • When a customer buys a drink in their own mug, they get 0.50€ discount per drink.
  •  When a customer buys loose coffee or tea in their own bag, jar or something else of their own, they get a discount of 0.50€ on the product.

Fonum

Fonum sells used phones and tablets. At Fonum, we believe that even phones deserve a new chance. A small beauty flaw is just a sign of a life lived. You can find a selection of refurbished used phones from several different brands, such as Apple or Samsung in Fonum store. By buying a used phone, the life of the device is extended and less waste is generated. Fonum also grants used phones a 12-month warranty.

Halti

Halti has created an ECO label for its products so that information regarding the products’ origins and materials would be easily available. ECO means that the product must fulfil at least one of the following requirements:

  • The material used in the product complies with the bluesign® restrictions.
  • The product is made from recycled materials.
  • The product’s water resistance treatment is carried out completely without perfluorinated compounds.
  • The product is made from organic cotton.
  • The down used in the product is traceable and made from high-quality certified by-products of the food industry.

Iittala

Iittala offers a Vintage Service, a kitchenware service and a 100% recycled glass collection.

The Vintage service gives a new life to Iittala’s products. With the new recycling format, customers can sell or purchase products in the continuously updated Vintage collection in Iittala shops.

The purpose of Iittala’s kitchenware service, founded in 2021, is to support circular economy. The service offers an ecologically sustainable alternative to owning products and makes it possible to reuse and recycle the products 100%. The kitchenware service offers tableware, cutlery, glasses and cookware for a monthly fee. The objective is to offer new alternatives to traditional owning. The kitchenware that customers return to the store are reused or sold via the Vintage service.

Each product in Iittala’s recycled collection is made from 100% recycled glass material obtained from glass waste from the Iittala glass factory.

Iloinen Heppu

Iloinen Heppu sells Plan Toys, which is a collection of ecological and safe wooden toys. The Plan Toys are made from rubber trees that no longer produce latex. The entire rubber tree is first grinded from its roots to the branches. The mass obtained from the rubber tree is then mixed with non-toxic vegetable dyes. The mix is pressed back into solid form with non-toxic glue. The packages use recycled paper and non-toxic water-based ink. The Plan Toys’ products, which are made sustainably from rubberwood, go through a rigorous screening process and fulfil international standards in terms of both safety and environmental friendliness (ASTM, EN 71, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, SA 8000).  Surplus wood from the production of the products is utilised in a biomass generator which produces electricity for the entire factory and local villages.

Iloinen Heppu also sells Affenzahn animal backpacks made from materials containing 50% recycled PET bottles.

Intersport

Intersport sells products with a Vastuullinen valinta (Responsible choice) label. Each product contains a more detailed description of the product’s materials, features and potential certifications to make it easier to examine the product’s sustainability. The Vastuullinen valinta collection includes products that are e.g. made with a greener production process, made from natural or recycled materials and products that can be recycled.

Jysk

Most JYSK textile products, such as the Kunna products, are STANDARD 100 by OEKO-TEX® certified. This means that the product does not contain harmful substances. Some of JYSK’s products are also MADE IN GREEN by OEKO-TEX® certified, which is an extension of the OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 label. This ensures environmentally friendly and socially responsible manufacturing.

Life

Life’s product selection contains e.g. ecological cleaning products, natural cosmetics and vegan beauty products.

Marimekko

Marimekko has its own pre-loved online sales service. Through the service, you can either sell or buy used Marimekko products. In 2023, 21 percent of the materials used by Marimekko were recycled. Marimekko also strives to constantly increase the number of products in its collections that use only one type of fiber – this way the products are easier to recycle at the end of their life cycle.

Partioaitta

Partioaitta sells Patagonia brand products which are manufactured from recycled or recyclable materials.

Pentik

Most of Pentik’s furniture are old, restored furniture or made from reclaimed wood. The clay waste created in the ceramics manufacturing at Pentik’s own factory is reprocessed and used in the following batch.  In accordance to Pentik’s values, they aim to primarily select recycled and certified materials when selecting materials for their products.

Polarn O. Pyret

Polarn O. Pyret sells second hand products. In addition, at least 70%* of materials in PO.P’s clothes have a smaller impact on people, the environment and animals. PO.P uses the following sustainability labels:

  • Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS)
  • GOTS Made with organic cotton
  • Organic cotton
  • Recycled polyester
  • Recycled polyamide
  • Responsible Wool Standard (RWS)
  • Reclaimed fabrics (made from surplus materials)
  • LENZING™ ECOVERO™ viscose
  • TENCEL™ Lyocell

*Applies to all products manufactured from spring 2023 onwards.

Ruohonjuuri

Supporting the circular economy is important for Ruohonjuuri. Almost all of Ruohonjuuri’s products are fully recyclable and cosmetics often have good recycling instructions. 35 percent of the product packaging is made from recycled materials and some of the products themselves are also made from recycled materials, e.g. SIGG Traveler MyPlanet Drink bottles are made from recycled aluminum, EcoTools make-up brushes use recycled materials and rapidly renewable bamboo, and OleHyvä detergents have a refill service where the customer can refill their empty detergent bottle at a cheaper price .

Silmäasema

Silmäasema’s ECO and MonkeyGlasses collections are made from at least partially recycled materials.

Specsavers

Specsavers’ ReWear frames are made from partially recycled and bio-based materials. The manufacturing process utilises recycled plastic bottles to create trendy and high-quality frames.

Suomen Kultakello

Suomen Kultakello sells products made from recycled gold.

Superdry

Superdry’s collection includes vegan shoes and products made from organic cotton.

Synsam

Synsam has several product brands that are made from recycled material, e.g. the Fellepini x Sea2See brand is made from plastic waste collected from the seas. The Jämptö collection is made of 69% bio-based material; wood pulp and vegetable oils. The Eco collection is made from old frames.

Tempur

All new mattresses sold at Tempur are MADE IN GREEN by OEKO-TEX® certified. This means the product does not contain harmful substances. In addition, the certified products are manufactured in environmentally friendly and socially responsible premises.

The Body Shop

The Body Shop offers refillable packaging. They have eliminated unnecessary plastic and cardboard packaging and considered the potential for reuse in most of their gift packs.

UFF

UFF only sells used and carefully sorted clothing and home textiles. The proceedings of their sales are directed to development cooperation programs.

XS-lelut

The XS-Toys selection includes e.g. Eco Nation soft toys that are made from 100% recycled materials such as recycled plastic bottles.

Repair services

The following stores offer repair services.

Dressmann XL

The Dressmann XL store offers clothing repair services.

Fonum

Fonum offers phone repair service, both basic maintenance service and larger, more complicated repairs. Fonum repairs broken phones fast, without an appointment and with a 24-month warranty. Under normal circumstances, you will get your repaired phone returned within the same day, even in less than an hour or during a shopping trip. If you are an insurance customer, you may be entitled to compensation if your phone breaks. You can receive your insurance company’s compensation decision at the Fonum counter. By repairing your phone, you extend its life cycle and thus reduce the amount of electronic waste that ends up in the nature.

Halonen

Halonen offers a sewing service for various kinds of alterations to clothing purchased from Halonen shops or online. In addition to hemming, the services include, e.g. sewing buttons, shortening straps, changing zippers and various taking-in jobs. Halonen purchases sewing services locally from various entrepreneurs, and the professional dressmakers are generally small businesses or private traders.

Halti

Fixaa is Halti’s product repair advisory service that extends the lifecycle of clothes.

NP Housukauppa

NP Housukauppa offers a hemming service for trousers bought from the shop.

Partioaitta

Through Partioaitta you can get your hiking shoes re-soled from the manufacturer.

Pentik

Pentik offers a sewing service for fabrics bought from the shop. It also works with a sewing services partner who provides repair services.

PETRIFUN Store

PETRIFUN Store repairs clothes bought from them. The shirts have a button guarantee, but if a button comes off or falls apart, the store sews the button back on.

Polarn O. Pyret

PO.P Repairs is a repair service paid by the customer. All other outdoor clothing besides rainwear can be repaired.  The repairs include replacing a zipper or its parts, iron-on repair patches and attaching buttons or press studs. For other repairs, the personnel assesses on a case-by-case basis whether the clothing can be repaired so that it is still usable. PO.P’s VIP members get one free repair per year, and the rest of the repairs are paid by the customer.

Specsavers

Specsavers offers repair services for glasses and sunglasses.

Stockmann

Stockmann’s sewing services offer alteration of new clothing as well as repairs for clothing bought elsewhere.

Synsam

Synsam does minor eyeglass repairs, such as replacing nose pads, changing tips and straightening frames.

Telia

Telia repairs mobile devices.

Reducing food waste

The following grocery stores and restaurants reduce food waste through various measures.

K-Citymarket

K-Citymarket aims for minimal food waste through assortment management and forecasting and demand planning. They plan and implement ordering activities with the help of artificial intelligence and predictability to try to make the order quantities as accurate as possible.

In addition, K-Citymarket aims to reduce food waste in the following ways:

  • By selling products about to expire on the “last chance” shelf for a discounted price.
  • By selling bread from the store’s own bakery and other producers for the price of €2 per 3 loaves of bread in the evenings.
  • “Smooth it” makes daily smoothies by using good but aesthetically challenged fruit.
  • By selling grilled products from the hot foods display with a 50% discount in the evenings.
  • By selling bakery items with a 50% discount in the evenings.
  • By donating fruit waste to animals through partners.
  • By donating food items still fit for human consumption but which are no longer sold in the store. The donations are given to Vantaan Yhteinen Pöytä food waste terminal five days a week and to Vantaan Apuraide ry on Saturdays.

Prisma

Prisma aims to reduce food waste in the following ways:

  • By offering products about to expire (“red-label products”) for a discounted price.
  • By discounting food products in the evening by 60%.
  • By donating food still fit for human consumption to the Vantaan Yhteinen Pöytä charity every day.
  • By donating edible food with broken packages via animal welfare organisations.
  • By directing inedible food waste for biofuel, feed or to biogas production.

Ruohonjuuri

Ruohonjuuri sells products that are soon to expire at reduced prices.

ResQ App

The ResQ App enables you to buy food from the restaurants with 30–60% discount and prevents surplus dishes from restaurants and cafés going to waste. The following stores use ResQ App:

  • Arnolds Jumbo
  • Cafe Picnic Jumbo
  • Espresso House (Jumbo & Leisure quarter)
  • Fazer Café Jumbo
  • Hokkaido Sushibuffet
  • Jungle Juice Bar (both kiosks)
  • Sichuan Panda ravintola
  • Rax Flamingo
  • Ravintola Hua Du
  • Waffles & Wine by Flamingo Spa

Rental services

The following stores offer rental services.

Synsam

Synsam has a Lifestyle concept. The customers are given an option to rent glasses from Synsam as part of the Lifestyle concept. The customer returns the products to Synsam after the rental period and the products are either recycled or given to a charity.

Tempur

You can try out a mattress topper by renting one for a week.

Tunninkuva

Tunninkuva rents out a Fuji Instax camera.