With evergreen bags for the environment

METRO, SPAR and Tesco urge their customers to quit using disposable plastic shopping bags and switch to environmentally friendly solutions. After every shopping bag sold by METRO Hungary, 5 Forints go to the National Society of Conservationists.
These bags advertise environmental consciousness and the NSC. SPAR Hungary has been cooperating with the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service for years – after each shopping bag sold they spare 1 Forint for the charity, collecting HUF 13,026,684 last year. SPAR has been selling their biologically degradable bags in 400 stores since 2005. Tesco’s ‘evergreen bag’ costs 49 Forints to buy and when they are damaged or worn out they can be exchanged for a new one for free (returned
bags are recycled). In a compost environment these bags completely degrade in 1.5 years. To reduce the use of disposable plastic bags these will cost 5 Forints in every store. Nearly 300 million less plastic bags will be used annually, as a test period showed that nearly 90 percent less bags are used if they are not for free.

Tesco’s solar energy utilisation project won the Hungarian Innovation Fund’s special prize. At the end of March the minister of economy, István Varga handed over the diploma. The retail chain is dedicated to sustainable growth and to protecting the environment. They realised several R+D projects in the field of solar energy utilisation, which is perfectly in line with this policy.
In its Budaörs store, Tesco planted a Climasol solar energy collection system,which is more than 1,000 m² big. The energy is used for heating, cooling and warming water.