A Hatvani Környezetvédő Egyesület meseíró versenyt hirdet az Észak Magyarországi Régió, Budapest és a régióval határos területek óvónői és általános iskolák alsó tagozatos (1-3. oszt.) pedagógusai részére.

We would like to write about the presentation of Coca Cola rather than the actual product itself. 92% of the Hungarian Coke market is in the hands of two multinational giants which explains why we have to think about their marketing activity and its impact on the environment.

A dairy company started to sell a new product made of cheese whey with the name in the title of this article. It was packaged in Tetra Brik. This is how the most complicated consumer interest story of the last years started. After a hard struggle the Commercial Jury (Gazdasági Vesenyhivatal) made its decision on 24th of April: IQ energy drink produced by WES Rt. has nothing to do with either IQ, energy or organic products. The product cannot be advertised and sold claiming these attributes. It also turned out during the procedure that official permission to market the product hadn't been given till the end of February 1997, and especially as this is food - this is more than embarassing.

A specially modified bus was wandering around Hungary last year. The huge, smoke-blowing Tetra-Brik box � owned by the Tetra-Pak company - visited schools where, at the request of the school management, the driver gave lectures on environmental issues.

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.