Competition of Environment-conscious small and medium-sized enterprises

The environment-conscious eco-thinking can be economically profitable. Those businesses can win the Environmental Savings Award which benefits from environment-saving projects
and actions.

According to Havasi Péter, Program Manager, the program has been underway since 2002. They started it to demonstrate, that the environment issue is not waste of money. These types of investments in most cases return the company benefits and provide a competitive advantage in a two or three years time. At the beginning they seeked for 44 action of 12 companies, today nearly 300 investments and developments of  65 organisations have been collected, that allowed the companies to save 18.7 billion HUF. Besides the Small Business category award, projects which show a return of benefits in a three-year period, and after three years will also win prizes – reports Origo.