Schools often ask the Waste Management Working Group (HuMuSz) for advice on how they can resist the more and more aggressive invasion of commercial advertisements. As the problem of companies trying to advertise in schools is rather common, and because HuMuSz has been involved since the outset in preparation of the new advertising law , our organization would like to recommend the following:

Most people don't realize that their consumption choices necessarily and directly relate to the global problem of the growing mountains of waste.It is good to know that half of the household waste (yearly 200 kg per capita) is packaging waste.

The Ministry of Environment, under the administration of the new Small-Holder Party minister, wastes time, postpones decisions, makes the wrong ones, but probably the most damaging move � especially environmentally - was making radical cuts in the budget of the program-managers responsible for waste collection and recycling.

The glass reprocessing industry is in a lamentable situation. After the Sajoszentpeter glass factory closed following a change of owners in February 1999, glass reprocessing almost ground to a halt in Hungary. It now looks like the Oroshaza factory is about to follow suit (same owner!) but still, there is a little hope!

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