Reuse: Is there any future for refillable packaging?
Today it might sound
unbelievable that our grandparents didn’t use combined packaging to
store ultrapasteurized and „hiperhomogenized” milk in and they
survived somehow..."Articles on prevention from the former Hungarian versions of Waste Diver (Kukabúvár)
Waste prevention: is there any chance?
HuMuSz
has been telling for ten years that waste problem cannot be solved by
waste disposal, moreover waste recovery is not the real solution
either. Only waste prevention can solve the problem. Durable and
reusable products should be made while one-way products must be
replaced wherever they can be. We should buy less and buy only really
indispensable things; we should use products for longer time; we
should repair our tools whenever we can. The shopping mall products
and throw-aways dropped into our letter-boxes shouldn’t rule our
lives.
From the consumer protection files of HuMuSz
Adverts using green slogans
Advertisements targeting children
Ecological consumer protection
The
Hungarian society which had to endure many kinds of shortages and
restrictions under the Socialist era, blaze away at the consumer
society in a carefree way after the democratic transformation.
However, the desired economic growth can only be sustained in the
long run by raising the need for the production and consumption of
new products. These demands are aroused mainly by adverts.
Landscape Surgery Campaign (details)
The Landscape Surgery Campaign of the Waste Management Group (Humusz)
was launched on 2 April 2001 in the Zoo of Budapest. A press conference was
also held where an account of the aims and challenges of the campaign was
made. The grant was advertised nationwide on 29 August. During the past seven
months the following has been achieved:
Megvesszük. Tudjuk, milyen messziről érkezik?
A Pécsi Egyetem Ökomarketing tárgyának hallgatói magyar boltokba látogattak el, hogy felmérjék a kínálatot. A TVE holapján megjelent cikk arról számol be, mi az a legmesszebbrõl importált termék, ami idehaza is megterem... "(...) a termék származási helye Kína. A két ország fõvárosa egészen
pontosan 7333 km-re van egymástól. (...) ahhoz kétség sem fér, hogy jóval
környezetszennyezõbb (üzemanyag, ember- és anyagköltség,
idõtényezõk,...), mintha itthonról szállítanánk."