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Kamupak is a circular takeaway packaging solution based on a digital deposit system: "Single-use packaging is a thing of the past"
The group of three behind Kamupak – Iida Miettinen, Eero Heikkinen and Karri Lehtonen – believe in the power of deposit systems...

Return to Reuse – Kamupak's story
Packaging waste – you see it everywhere piling up on streets, highways, parks and beaches. The main reason for this is the concept that we call "disposable product", in other words: waste. This problem has become well visible issue during the pandemic...

What if you could recycle your lunch box like return bottles?
One key part of what we do is that we want to be better and better; to serve our friends even better. Another important leap towards something even better is this news, which I can finally share with you: Picnic is the first fast food restaurant to use Kamupak's reusable lunch boxes...

Palmia's restaurants and cafes participate in the Kamukuppi pilot
In Helsinki, they are looking for concrete ways to reduce single-use plastic by testing a reusable take-away coffee cup and a deposit system...

Heroes of the circular economy
Iida Miettinen got frustrated with the disposable culture and was inspired by pledge bottles - as a result, Kamupak...

Plastic belongs to recycling - will the deposit system save the packaging industry?
The EU is consigning single-use plastic to history. In Finland, take-out packages with a deposit are creating new consumption habits for thermoplastics...

A Finnish company came up with a simple, ingenious idea to reduce take-away waste - this is how it works
The startup company Kamupak is launching a digital deposit service for returnable take away packages. It is a circular economy solution that replaces single-use packaging...

Now there are deposits for takeaway food packaging - the startup company Kamupak came up with a way to reduce the one-time use of packaging
Kamupaki's recycling containers replace the disposable boxes of meal bars. K-supermarket Lauttasaari put the system into permanent use.

Kamupak is a circular takeaway packaging solution based on a digital deposit system: “Single-use packaging is a thing of the past”
The group of three behind Kamupak – Iida Miettinen, Eero Heikkinen and Karri Lehtonen – believe in the power of deposit systems...

Get rid of disposable cups: In Helsinki, you will soon be able to buy coffee in a pledge cup - a much bigger pledge than in a soda bottle
The pilot is partially funded by the Ministry of the Environment's Plastic Road Map project...

Find out the definition of plastics in May?
The EU's so-called SUP (single used plastics) directive is banning a few plastic products in July...

Reusable take away coffee cup pilot kicks off in Helsinki this Spring
LOOP is proud to be piloting reusable take-away coffee cups in Helsinki...

FORWARD: Instead of a steady career, I wanted to have a real impact on the world
At the start of the Fall, when we and Maria 01 asked for the most positive Finnish entrepreneurs for this series, suggestions were flooding in...

One million euros for plastic road map trial and pilot projects for solutions to the plastic problem
The Ministry of the Environment has granted six projects funding from the Muovimilljoona support program for trial and pilot projects aimed at solving the plastic problem...

Return to Reuse
With Kamupak, consumers have the opportunity to reduce waste and emissions caused by single-use packaging. Kamupak is a reusable deposit box, and its circulation works through the deposit service...

Entrepreneurs are the problem solvers of this world.
I'm Iida, the founder and the chair of the board at Kamupak. I founded Kamupak three years ago after having an idea ...

Things that matter
Iida Miettinen, the owner family of the technology company Ensto, suffered a serious brain injury in the accident. During rehabilitation, he reflected on his values and decided to solve the takeaway packaging waste problem with the help of a startup...

In Helsinki, we are experimenting with take-away coffee cups that can be pawned
A pilot project will be launched in Helsinki during the spring, during which, instead of a disposable coffee cup, the customer can claim a reusable cup against a deposit...

Here is a lunch box with a pledge, which works just like a normal bottle pledge
"The era of disposable packaging is over", declares a Finnish growth company...

Our new partners of the SPARX acceleration program are Kamupak and Glue
SPARX is Sodexo's acceleration program for startup companies, the purpose of which is to promote the development of new services and products...

Are the customers and the store ready for change? - A Finnish startup wants to turn store boxes into pawn shops
Customers have praised the idea's environmental friendliness...