Jumbo’s acts of sustainability

We prepared a Sustainability Programme

We have drawn up a Sustainability Programme for the Jumbo shopping centre for 2022-2030. It focuses especially on environmental and social sustainability. The shopping centre’s Sustainability Manager is responsible for implementing the Sustainability Programme.

We continuously improve energy efficiency

Jumbo’s heat pump systems were fully operational in 2022. The shopping centre benefits from the heat recovery system that collects waste heat generated from grocery stores, the building’s cooling networks and exhaust air, and uses it further for space heating. On the Leisure quarter side of the centre, a corresponding system recovers heat from the Spa’s wastewater and other energy flows and makes use of this energy within the shopping centre. The shopping centre’s heating and cooling emissions have considerably decreased as a result. Furthermore, we optimise ventilation according to the conditions and the number of visitors.

We believe that even small actions have a big effect. That’s why sustainability can be seen everywhere in our shopping centre.

Here are a few small but effective energy efficiency actions implemented at Jumbo:

• The lighting of the service corridors and stairwells have motion detectors to save electricity.
• Jumbo’s lighting consists of LED lamps. We have also removed large advertising lights that indicated our opening hours from the façade and roof of our shopping centre.
• Our escalators and walkways are equipped with a stand-by function, which means they stop or rotate more slowly when there are no people on them.
• We further promote the property’s energy efficiency by optimising ventilation, heating and cooling.

We have improved recycling opportunities

Our customers can recycle a wide variety of household items when visiting Jumbo. Our largest recycling point can be found in the outdoor car parking area on the Lentoasemantie side of the building, in front of the shopping centre. Recycling bins can also be found inside and outside of our bottle recycling points located on levels P1 and P3 of the car park.

Examples of materials you can recycle at Jumbo-Flamingo include:

• Glasses and jars
• Cardboard
• Paper products and magazines
• Small metal items
• Plastics bags and packaging
• Clothing, shoes, bags, textiles, toys and sporting equipment (UFF and Kierrätyskeskus Boksi-donation point)
• Batteries and small electronic devices
• Lamps and fluorescent tubes
• Bottles and cans

Waste produced by stores is carefully recycled

The waste generated by Jumbo’s stores is carefully sorted. Various waste types, such as glass, metal, paper, energy-saving lamps, fluorescent tubes and batteries have their own containers. Cardboard and clear plastics, are compressed into bales using balers. Additionally, metal cans are pressed together and collected as metal waste. We also collect wood waste.

We have also improved the collection of packaged biowaste and waste-to-energy in order to reduce the amount of mixed waste. All packaged or unpackaged food waste generated from our stores is placed in the biowaste containers, from where it is delivered to a processing plant and turned into compost or biogas.

We have a co-working space

Remote working has become the new norm in the recent years, so we have opened a co-working place called Wörkkis which is free-of-charge and open to all users. It can be found on level 2 of Leisure quarter, next to Break Sokos Hotel Flamingo. You can find various workstations, from desks to relaxed sofas, as well as soundproof phone booths for important calls in the co-working space. Free WiFi is available in Wörkkis, and there is no need to make a reservation in advance.

Supporting event organisation

We organise a Megarekry event annually together with the City of Vantaa. Aabout a thousand open jobs are advertised by recruiters to Jumbo’s visitors. We also organise events and activities in collaboration with other organisations ranging from children’s activities to timely exhibitions, and even traffic safety events.

We organised KUULE MUA! event to support the well-being of youth in January 2025. The event focused on preventing youth distress and social exclusion and it was organised in collaboration with the local youth workers and other local partners. Read more about the event here (in Finnish).