Environment

Recycling

Sanyo Hungary completes new plant, set to triple output, start new project

Sanyo Electric is expanding its solar cell plant in Hungary and it will be the Japanese electronics firm's biggest in...

Recycling

Pepsico will reportedly build $100 mln plant in southern Russia

Drinks and snack company PepsiCo Inc. planning to build a Frito Lay chips plant in the Rostov region in southern...

Recycling

Fuel loaded into Romania’s Cernavoda 2

The first bundle of nuclear fuel has been loaded into the Cernavoda 2 reactor in Romania, paving the way for...

Recycling

Lukoil may buy Conoco refinery in Germany

Russia's top oil producer OAO Lukoil is considering buying a German refinery from its strategic partner and major shareholder, US...

Recycling

Holcim Romania plans investments worth €86 mln

Holcim Romania this year plans to make investments worth €86 million in a series of projects including the modernization of...

Recycling

Electronics makers turn to Eastern Europe for labor, tax breaks

Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are building new assembly lines and expanding existing plants for TVs and LCDs in Eastern...

Recycling

LG.Philips LCD starts mass production at module plant in Poland

LG.Philips LCD announced on April 1 it began full-scale mass production at its back-end LCD module (LCM) plant in Poland...

Recycling

Ashok Leyland restructures business

Ashok Leyland, the flagship automobile firm of the Hinduja Group, Friday said Avia Ashok Leyland Motors and Ashok Leyland (UAE)...

Initiatives

US investors, state officials give good marks for bearing of Hungarian economy

The path Hungary's economy is on has been given much more attention and a more positive assessment in the US...

Initiatives

Brussels cartel investigators face staff crisis as cases flood in

A flood of antitrust cases at the European Commission is creating a resource crisis within the Commission’s competition directorate that...

Initiatives

Belarus protesters receive EU support

The Europian Union called on Belarus to release the activists arrested during clashes with opposition protestors in Minsk on 25...

Initiatives

Belarus to charge Russia for land under pipelines from August

Belarus will charge Russia for the land underneath oil and gas pipelines that carry Russian fuel to Europe, seeking to...

Recycling

CAP incompatible with EU green energy goals

The EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is incompatible with the EU's goal to boost the use of biofuel and other...

Initiatives

Police question Total CEO in Iran corruption probe

The head of oil group Total SA, France's biggest listed company, is being questioned by police in a probe into...

Initiatives

UK push for biofuels may harm environment, campaigners say

A UK plan to help tackle global warming by increasing the use of biofuels such as palm oil and rapeseed...

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...