| Save a Tree!... and Give Life to Another: Students Planted Trees Bought with Receipts from Wastepaper |
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| Thursday, 03 October 2013 00:00 | |||||
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Students from schools 85, 108, 165 and 220, as well as the Oleksandr Boychenko Gymnasium 59, participated in the activity. According to NNP “Holosiyivsky” Leading Recreation Specialist Olena Boyko, the trees planted around the Sportyvne lake included species of rowan, willow, guelder rose, cherry-plum, and cherry.
A total of three metric tons of wastepaper were collected during the action, including over one ton collected by the action initiator – Specialized School #85. The activity was carried out with support and immediate participation of MAMA-86 and NNP “Holosiyivsky,” as well as the Kyiv Holosiyivsky Raion State Administration. First Deputy Administration Head Vadym Ivanchenko and Deputy Administration Head Dmytro Rybchenko welcomed participants and personally planted two guelder roses. School 85 Principal Tetyana Fedunova said that wastepaper collection at school began two years ago. In this year, they decided to go further: buy planting stock with money for the wastepaper sold. Ms. Fedunova stressed that there are fruiters among the trees, and it is not just so happened because the action goes during the “Environment on Your Plate” campaign. Please see pictures from the event on the MAMA-86 Facebook page: *** Green Consumer Weeks in Ukraine – week-long concentrated awareness campaigns aimed at popularizing environmentally responsible consumption and focused on one of important themes of sustainable consumption – have been carried out since 2012 by the Ukrainian National Environmental NGO "MAMA-86" with support from the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation and in collaboration with various partner organizations. The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation has been conducting similar campaigns in their country in October for many years running. These campaigns have helped significantly increase public awareness of advantages of environment-friendly way of living, develop a legal framework that encourages sustainable consumption and prohibits or limits supply of environmentally harmful goods and services, as well as form a circle of eco-responsible producers and sellers who, on their part, further the transition of the Swedish society toward more sustainable consumption behavior.
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October 3, 2013, Kyiv — In the National Natural Park “Holosiyivsky,” students from several Holosiyivsky Raion schools planted trees that had been bought with receipts from wastepaper collected and sold in the action “Save a Tree,” carried out within the framework of the Global Green Action Week and the Green Consumer Week’2013 campaign “Environment on Your Plate.”
