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This year Tungsram Group has received the CSR Hungary – Hungarian Corporate Social Responsibility Award in two categories

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As a result of the 3-level assessment process Tungsram has won in the “Common affairs,common responsibility” category for it’s  Future Talents training program as well as in the “Soul of CSR-Internal CSR solutions” category awarded for  Volunteer programs and Fittungsram employee health-program.

Joerg Bauer the President&CEO of Tungsram has thanked the participants of the programs and the CSR leadership.In the Future Talents program of Tungsram 90 high school students receive almost 600 hours of English classes and 100 hours of labour market training at the Tungsram plants: Hajdúböszörmény, Kisvárda, Nagykanizsa, Zalaegerszeg and Budapest.

In 2018 Tungsram volunteers had helped local communities with 12,000 hours of work, with 150 participants and 100 programs while the Fittungsram health-program had contributed to the health of the colleagues with 30 events and 30 free medical screenings besides several preventive and mental health-promoting programs. The winners can use the trademark of CSR Hungary of their responsible corporate operations for 2 years.  The patron of the event was Minister of Innovation and Technology Hungary dr. László Palkovics. The Deputy Secretary of State for sustainable development Ferenc Hizó was participating on the event. He said: “It is a great success if an enterprise  recognizes that enforcing economic interests and making efforts towards sustainable development and growth are not excluding, but rather complementing each other.”

We congratulate the winners of the categories in the name of Tungsram!

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Loacker Hulladékhasznosító Kft. is committed to purposefully raising public awareness

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Waste can become raw material once again, but it requires conscious waste recovery efforts to ensure that items scrapped or thrown away get to the appropriate place and are recycled. Loacker Hulladékhasznosító Kft. is pursuing its activities with the aim of creating raw materials for the future: recycling makes it possible to generate raw materials with significant energy efficiency, at the same time also reducing environmental burden.

Waste recovery has a significant impact on the economy. To illustrate it with a practical example: if you put an empty beer can into the appropriate (yellow) collection bin, after going through a multi-step waste management process it will eventually end up in an aluminium smelter, where it will be turned into raw material once again. This process of aluminium production uses 95% less energy than the making of aluminium from bauxite, meaning that while the end product is of identical quality, the production process is much more economical. On the other hand, if you throw an aluminium can into the communal (black) waste bin, it will be taken to the landfill, contributing to an increase in environmental burden.

Loacker Hulladékhasznosító Kft. works together with its industrial and public service provider partners with the aim of jointly developing more efficient systems and achieving, as a common goal, an improvement in waste recollection rates. However, liaising with the general public and participating in targeted awareness-raising efforts are equally important, as consumption and buying habits are closely interrelated with the quantity of waste produced, and also its management.

As a part of its CSR activities Loacker organizes various programs, among others in collaboration with various civil society organizations, and frequently hosts field trips where school groups can get acquainted with all waste processing operations. In addition, the Company’s staff and consultants regularly participate in the “Earth Day” event organized every year by the 9th district municipality, where – through a series of playful activities – they promote waste recycling and stress its role in creating value in an environmentally friendly manner. In addition to theoretical awareness-raising activities, the Company has launched several practical initiatives in support of appropriate waste management. Sorting and handling waste at recreational events often poses a challenge, this is why Loacker provided several selective waste storage bins to help keep Hídépítő Street – this year’s World Urban Games venue – clean, at the same time guaranteeing the recovery of all waste generated.

“Value can only be created from waste by recovery. But in order to be able to produce raw materials for the future, we must consciously create a cycle of planning, production and recovery” – said János Dévényi, managing director of Loacker Hulladékhasznosító Kft.

The Loacker Group – a 100% subsidiary of the Austrian Loacker Recycling GmbH. – has been active in Hungary since 1993. The group currently operates three yards in Hungary (2 in Budapest and 1 in Kiskorpád). With a history of over 140 years, the parent company and also the sister companies are committed to a sustainable future and the use of environmentally conscious recovery technologies in everyday practice.

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Syngenta commits $2 billion and sets new targets for innovation to tackle climate change

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  • Syngenta dedicates $2 billion over five years to innovation specifically targeted at delivering a step change in agricultural sustainability
  • CEO Erik Fyrwald announced the market launch of two technological breakthroughs a year at the Sustainability Summit in New York
  • Syngenta will reduce the carbon intensity of the company’s operations by 50 percent by 2030, to support the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change

In mid-October Syngenta announced $2 billion will be spent over the next five years to help farmers prepare for and tackle the increasing threats posed by climate change. The investment supports a new Syngenta sustainability goal of delivering at least two technological breakthroughs to market each year, to reduce agriculture’s contribution to climate change, harness its mitigation capacity, and help the food system stay within planetary boundaries. Erik Fyrwald, Chief Executive Officer at Syngenta also announced that the investment in research and development for sustainable agriculture will be matched by a drive to reduce the carbon intensity of the company’s operations by at least 50% by 2030 to support the ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Syngenta’s commitment has been validated and endorsed by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

“Agriculture is now at the front line of global efforts to tackle climate change,” said Mr Fyrwald. “Syngenta is committed to accelerating our innovation to find better and ever safer solutions to address the shared challenge of climate change and biodiversity loss.” “These aren’t just words, this is real action that will drive focus in Syngenta to help farmers tackle climate change and reduce the sector’s contribution to the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.” The $2 billion will be directed towards programs with clearly differentiated benefits or breakthrough technologies that will enable a step change in agricultural sustainability, such as land use, soil health and integrated pest management.

The targets form part of Syngenta’s Accelerating Innovation commitment launched earlier this year to address the increased challenges faced by farmers because of climate change, soil erosion and biodiversity loss. Progress against these targets will be reported annually and independently audited. The announcement was in large part informed by the completion of 150 listening sessions around the globe – including Hungary as well – to help the company’s leaders identify priority areas for investment.

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Dove moves to 100% recycled plastic bottles

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To be part of the solution in creating a circular plastics economy, one where plastics are reused and recycled, Dove is accelerating and expanding its actions with renewed force, Dove is making some significant changes to packaging and products. Here’s how.

No plastic: According to the plan single packs of Dove’s iconic beauty bar will be plastic-free globally. Development is also underway to replace the plastic outer-wrap of multipacks with a zero-plastic material.

Better plastic: In line with Unilever’s global commitment to halve its use of virgin plastic by 2025, Dove will switch to new 100% recycled plastic bottles, where technically feasible, in North America and Europe by the end of 2019.

Less plastic: Dove will leverage the technology behind its new reusable, refillable, stainless steel format deodorant sticks: minim™. It will be trialed as part of the LOOP™ platform initiative: a first-of-its-kind, minimal waste, direct-to-consumer shopping system.

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Nestlé Recycling Guide

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An average consumer in the European Union generates 4.8 tonnes of waste every year, most of which is plastic packaging. Therefore, the ambition of the EU is to have 65% of all packaging waste recycled by 2025 and at least 25% of plastic bottles made of recycled input materials. But what can an average person do to achieve such an important goal? One of the largest food company in the world, Nestlé has prepared an easy to understand Recycling Guide for consumers, with practical tips for responsible waste collection.

Nestle has prepared an easy to understand recycling guide for consumers, with professional input from the HUMUSZ Association. The publications seeks to improve the working of Hungary’s waste recycling system with practical advice to households. With the help of the guidebook, consumers can learn what goes in what bin.

Like many other food companies, Nestlé also set the ambition to make all of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025. They announced the creation the Nestlé Institute of Packaging Science in Switzerland that primarily focuses on researching and implementing recyclable, biodegradable or compostable polymers and new packaging concepts and technologies that improve the recyclability of plastic packaging materials.

In addition to developing alternative packaging solutions, with this educational guide they are raising awareness for the importance of this issue with the wider public.

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Coca‑Cola HBC again named Europe’s most sustainable beverage company

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The 2019 Dow Jones Sustainability Index – a leading global benchmark for sustainability in business – has rated Coca‑Cola HBC Europe’s most sustainable beverage company. This is the 6th time in 7 years that the company has been ranked number 1 in the index and the 9th year in a row that it has been ranked in the top three Global and European beverage companies.

Maximum scores in 11 categories and positive improvements in 9 others contributed to an overall score of 90, which ranked the company second in the global ranking.

Commenting on the achievement, CEO Zoran Bogdanovic said: “We are honoured and proud that the commitment of our employees and partners to sustainable practices has again resulted in this recognition. We are well aware though that this is just a snapshot. In reality, the work never stops and there is always more to be done. That’s why we put so much focus on the consistent, long-term delivery of our sustainability goals.”

2018 sustainability highlights that contributed to our score
  • We achieved our science-based commitment to reduce carbon emissions in our value chain by 25% (compared with 2010), two years ahead of the 2020 target date. In other words, we have saved 1.27 million tonnes of carbon emissions;
  • We achieved an employee engagement score of 88%, above the average of FTSE 100 companies
  • 37% of management roles are now held by women, our target is 50% by 2025;
  • 98% of our €3.237m supplier spend was local, supporting employment and businesses in the countries in which we operate, while we contributed €328m in taxes to local economies.
  • We invested €7.9m in community projects, of which more than one third in our flagship Youth Empowered programme to help young people develop business acumen and personal life skills;
  • We reduced the amount of water used in production by 22% in our manufacturing plants (compared to 2010);
  • We successfully recovered the equivalent of 45% of the total primary packaging we placed in the market for recycling.
Mission Sustainability

We launched our 2025 sustainability commitments in September 2018 to address six key areas: reducing emissions; water use and stewardship; World Without Waste; ingredients sourcing; nutrition; and our people and communities. The full commitments can be viewed here. We have already made good progress and are on track to meet these.

Coca‑Cola HBC’s sustainability performance is also recognised by other respected industry rankings, such as the CDP Climate Disclosure, the MSCI ESG Rating and the FTSE4Good Index.

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Carbon neutral Christmas

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In december 2018 ALTEO decided to neutralize the carbon footprint of the Christmas event by planting as many trees as it can to absorb the carbon footprint of the event. Last year it meant 28 trees, which was the equivalent amunt of neutralizing 3.18 tonnes of carbon from food, travel, publications, organization and on-site energy use. The tree planting was carried out in spring 2019 with the support of the School Gardens Foundation in the gardens of educational institutions. After the success of last year’s initiative, ALTEO decided to organize a carbon-neutral Christmas this year as well.

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Green commute to the airport: together towards sustainable airports

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What can we do to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of commuting to the airport? What are the alternative, sustainable ways of doing that? How can the ecological footprint of a passenger or airport staff member be reduced? These were among the questions requiring complex solutions that Budapest Airport sought to answer, with the help of transport development experts, as part of an EU project called LAirA, the international closing conference of which was held on 5 December at Terminal 1.

Environmental protection has numerous aspects relating to the way we access airports; tens of thousands of people commute to airports by road on a daily basis. To reduce the energy consumption and the environmental pollution resulting from this, the habits of passengers and airport staff members need to be changed, in addition to many other possible developments. As part of sustainable operation, Budapest Airport, the operator of Ferenc Liszt International Airport, pays special attention to the accessibility of the airport, from an environmental and infrastructural aspect as well. These efforts fit in well with the development concepts of the partners participating in the “Sustainable airport accessibility” project. The 14 partners, which included Central European airports, development agencies and local municipalities, formulated their development ideas in the LAirA (Landside Airport Accessibility) project, which was supported by the EU’s Interreg CE (Central-Europe) program. The aim of the project is to aid the integration of intelligent and low-emission transport solutions into the daily commute to urban airports.

As part of the project, Budapest Airport conducted a survey amongst passengers and employees last year. The results revealed that 60% of staff commute to work by car. To reduce the environmental pollution resulting from this, the airport operator developed a mobile application together with Oszkár, a Hungarian ride sharing service provider, whereby employees can share their trips with each other, and thus reduce the environmental burdens of their commute to work.

Using the information and the international best practices gathered in the course of the LAirA project, Budapest Airport also formulated its own, comprehensive mobility strategy. The construction of a turbo roundabout between main road number 4 and Terminal 2 commenced this year, which will manage the increasing passenger traffic of the airport and the cargo traffic turning off towards the newly opened Cargo City rapidly and efficiently. Budapest Airport also increased the number of chargers for electric vehicles available around the airport; 4 dedicated e-chargers are provided for cars used in airport operation. More charging stations are being established and the vehicles used at the airport are being replaced on a continuous basis. Our partners operating at the airport are also developing; the electric taxis used by Főtaxi can use 5 fast chargers and passengers arriving at the airport with electric vehicles have access to a fast charger in Terminal Parking. The airport operator also provides 15 dedicated parking spaces for the users of the MOL Limo car sharing service, with 6 charging stations to be installed during the summer of 2020.

An airport is a city in a city; BUD operates day and night on an area of approximately 1500 hectares, with numerous buildings and its own infrastructure. Accordingly, airport operation requires a comprehensive approach and mindset, whereby Budapest Airport has implemented numerous environmental protection measures. Ferenc Liszt International Airport has been certified carbon neutral for more than two years now, and has committed to reduce the harmful emissions of the airport to zero by 2050.

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Supporting future generations

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ALTEO is dedicated to be environmentally and socially responsible while being financially profitable. That is why the company decided to break the tradition of giving Christmas presents to business partners this year. In order to thank its partners for a year-long, valuable and fruitful collaboration ALTEO decided to support an important initiative instead: UNICEF Hungary’s Generation Unlimited program. The initiative seeks to identify the social issues that are affecting young people, particularly those who are disadvantaged in the field of employment, in order to develop creative local solutions to these problems. The support of ALTEO allows two teams to participate in the international competition.

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Bay Zoltán Research Institute at the European Waste Reduction Week

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Circular economy is a flagship in the European Union: it appears in ecological and economical discussions and becomes more and more important in the research – development – innovation activities as well. One of the most important actors of the subject in Hungary is the Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research. There are several research activities within our organisation, focusing on this subject. However, the dissemination and education actions related to circular economy are very important as well, supported by our newly established Science Shop. For us it was quite obvious to join the European Waste Reduction Week and to organise several events.

Our first event within the week was the 14th LCA Conference, which was organised with the support of the CIRCE2020 project. It was held on 18-19 November 2019 in Szentendre, with the title “Circular solutions, innovation – challenges in field of lifecycle management”. The 2-day conference attracted nearly 60 participants from the corporate, research and academic sectors interested in industrial symbiosis and greening industrial processes. Lecturers from our organisation informed the audience about the CIRCE 2020 project achievements, with a special view to the life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle cost assessment (LCC) learning procedures that have been carried out in the consortium.

On 19th November 2019, we joined the „Science Mosaic 4.0.” festival at the CsoPa Science Centre. The main focus of our prorgamme was the circular economy, and our aim was to show how applied science can contribute to achieving the circularity within the economy. Participants could study about the critical raw materials, check an interesting experiment related to these materials and could learn about how to become Raw Material Ambassadors within RM@Schools 3.0 project. There was an opportunity to clean water, to make recycled paper or to learn about avoiding wasting food. The head of Circular Economy area of Bay Zoltán Research Centre, Péter Chrabák held a lecture for pupils about the basics of circular economy and what can anyone do for a sustainable life.

On 23th November, an open event was held in Szimpla Kert, called „Waste reduction in everyday life”. Our aim was to show how we can re-use the everyday waste or how to reduce quantity of food waste. Our young and enthusiastic scientists showed how to prepare jewellery from PET bottles or lipbalm from home ingredients. There was an opportunity to refresh old metal stuff or to learn how the old clothes can start a new life. A workshop was also organised with the title of „The role of re-use in the circular economy”.

This interactive discussion started with a presentation, in which participants could hear about the waste produced in the European Union. It was surprising to learn how low percentage of this waste is recycled or re-used. Re-use was in the focus of the workshop, as it is studied within the SURFACE project. After the presentation, participants discussed the difficulties of re-use and their own experience.

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