Environment

Recycling

Hungary’s Mabio to launch bio-ethanol investment

Bács-Kiskun county-based Magyar Bioenergetikai Zrt (Mabio) is to launch a €190 million ($263 million) investment, one of the largest of...

Initiatives

Denmark advocates North Pole conference

Denmark and Greenland have called on the United States, Norway, Canada and Russia to hold a conference in May 2008...

Recycling

Hame buys Romanian food maker Antrefrig

Czech food producer Hame has bought Romanian firm Antrefrig, raising thus its share in the Romanian delicatessen market to roughly...

Recycling

Tatneft picks US engineering company Fluor to build oil refinery plant

Russian regional oil producer Tatneft, based in the constituent republic of Tatarstan, has signed a preliminary agreement with US engineering...

Recycling

Lukoil-Neftekhim plans $1 bln investment in petrochem facility in Ukraine

Lukoil-Neftekhim plans to invest an approximate sum of $1 billion in Ukraine’s Karpatnaftokhim. The new facility will process plastic and...

Recycling

EnviTec invests €55 mln in biogas

Germany’s EnviTec Biogas company intends to invest €55 million ($76 million) within the next two years in biogas production, with...

Initiatives

Hungary announces reforms for 2008

Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány announced the government’s planned new wave of reforms for 2008 at Parliament on Monday, according to...

Recycling

EIB to lend €100 mln to Port of Zadar in Croatia

The European Investment Bank is lending €100 million to the Port of Zadar Authority (Lucka Uprava Zadar) to finance the...

Recycling

Intel starts building $2.5 bln chip plant in China

On Saturday, US computer chip giant Intel Corp. broke ground on its first chipset plant in Asia, a project which...

Recycling

Russia’s UC RusAl to build plant in Indonesia

Russian aluminum giant United Company RusAl and Indonesian mining company Antam are expected to establish a bauxite and alumina processing...

Initiatives

Druzhba pipeline leg may be re-commissioned in spring

A Russian technical office spokesman said Thursday that the leg of a pipeline that used to pump oil to Lithuania...

Initiatives

Belarus energy firm to work Iran oil fields for $450 million

A Belarusian energy company was on Wednesday to sign an agreement worth $450 million to develop two Iranian oil fields,...

Initiatives

Five hundred chickens die of bird flu in south Russia

About 500 chickens in the south Russia’s Krasnodar Territory have died of bird flu, a local official said Tuesday....

Initiatives

Norway’s Statoil to purchase Baltic biodiesel interest

Statoil has signed a letter of intent with SEB Venture Capital for the purchase of a 42.5% interest in UAB...

Initiatives

Eastern Europe faces generation crisis

Just as the governments of Eastern Europe are grappling with the labor shortage caused by young, educated and skilled citizens...

Pollution

Dongwha Plant’s Environmental Permit Revoked in Hungary

The environmental permit for South Korea’s Dongwha electrolyte manufacturing and NMP recycling plant in Sóskút has been revoked following an...

Environment

Hungary Introduces Water Restrictions in 629 Settlements

In response to the extreme heat and drought in Hungary, first-degree water restrictions have been introduced in 465 settlements, according...

Recycling

Alteo Starts Trial Run at New DRS Waste Processing Plant

Alteo Group will significantly increase its processing capacity for returned beverage packaging from this summer, with the launch of trial...

Environment, Business, Initiatives

BCSDH Breakfast Links Sustainability Award to Promoting Scalable Business Change

The Business Council for Sustainable Development in Hungary used its Sustainable Future Inspiration Breakfast on May 6 to shift the...

Environment

Meet the Hungarian Professor Working to Restore the Danube

Research professor Tibor Erős talks to the BBJ about his career as a biologist and ecologist, detailing his passion for...

Environment

Questions Arise About Toxic Exposure at Samsung Göd, Company Denies Media Reports

In 2023, Hungary’s government secretly ordered the Constitution Protection Office, the National Information Center, and intelligence agencies to investigate the...

Pollution

Air Quality Deteriorating in Several Parts of Hungary

A high concentration of airborne dust particles is further deteriorating air quality in several parts of Hungary, the National Public...

Initiatives

Gov’t Calls Tender to Support Creation of Wetland Habitats

The gov't is calling a HUF 12.8 billion tender to support the development of natural wetland habitats, contributing to long-term...

Dongwha Plant’s Environmental Permit Revoked in Hungary

The environmental permit for South Korea’s Dongwha electrolyte manufacturing and NMP recycling plant in Sóskút has been revoked following an...

CATL Hungary Fined HUF 10 mln Over Environmental Permit Violations

The Debrecen plant of Chinese battery maker CATL violated several provisions of its environmental use permit and was fined HUF...

Hungary Introduces Water Restrictions in 629 Settlements

In response to the extreme heat and drought in Hungary, first-degree water restrictions have been introduced in 465 settlements, according...

Hungary Reviews Battery Plants’ Emissions, Water Use and Waste Management

A nationwide inspection program covering the full operating chain of Hungary’s battery industry began Aug. 1, Minister of the Living...

Alteo Starts Trial Run at New DRS Waste Processing Plant

Alteo Group will significantly increase its processing capacity for returned beverage packaging from this summer, with the launch of trial...

Budapest Water Supply ‘Stable’ Amid Heatwave

The water supply of Budapest is "stable", the city is in a position to help out settlements around the capital...

Budapest Proposes Tiered Water‑fee System to Cut Waste

Budapest is calling for a reform of Hungary’s water-pricing system, proposing free basic household consumption and progressively higher rates for...

Hungarian Environmental Protection Authority Initiates Proceedings Against CATL

The environmental protection authority has initiated proceedings against Chinese-owned CATL as the company illegally discharged green-colored liquid from a sewer...

BCSDH Breakfast Links Sustainability Award to Promoting Scalable Business Change

The Business Council for Sustainable Development in Hungary used its Sustainable Future Inspiration Breakfast on May 6 to shift the...

Meet the Hungarian Professor Working to Restore the Danube

Research professor Tibor Erős talks to the BBJ about his career as a biologist and ecologist, detailing his passion for...

Questions Arise About Toxic Exposure at Samsung Göd, Company Denies Media Reports

In 2023, Hungary’s government secretly ordered the Constitution Protection Office, the National Information Center, and intelligence agencies to investigate the...

Hungary DRS manages More Than 3 bln Returns in 2025

Hungary's deposit-return system (DRS) managed the return of over 3 billion bottles and cans in 2025, Mohu, a unit of...

Air Quality Deteriorating in Several Parts of Hungary

A high concentration of airborne dust particles is further deteriorating air quality in several parts of Hungary, the National Public...

Gov’t Calls Tender to Support Creation of Wetland Habitats

The gov't is calling a HUF 12.8 billion tender to support the development of natural wetland habitats, contributing to long-term...

Mohu’s Recycling Success Met With Bitter Irony by Large Retail Partners

Hungary’s deposit return system (DRS) on beverage packaging is an “internationally recognized” success, according to Mohu, the monopoly operator, but...