October 3, 2013, Nova Kakhovka, Kherson Oblast — An activity within the Green Consumer Week’2013 “Environment on Your Plate” campaign at General Education School #3 was a workshop for 9th grade students on phyto tea making – “Meds around Us.”

Chemistry and Phytotherapy Teacher Olha Bandurovska conducted the session for 22 students. Under her guidance they brewed and tasted 10 drinks of various medicinal grasses. The teacher reported on the effects of phyto teas on human organism, both positive and negative, on where medicinal grasses grow better, and on rules for their harvesting and procurement.

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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.