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Going green with the Ewings!

by Vicky Hales-Dutton

Jennifer Ewing, her husband Michael and heir two children live in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.  Jennifer is a project manager for a training company and works from home, while Michael looks after five-year-old Callum and Ishbel who is two.

The couple, who have been doing their bit for the environment for a long time, are determined that their children will learn to respect the environment and conserve its precious resources from an early age.

Michael and Jennifer Ewing

The Ewing household doesn’t waste anything if it can possibly help it which Jennifer says is down to her upbringing.

“My parents lived through the war and had to make do because of the shortages, an attitude they passed onto us.”  

That seems a far cry from today’s avid consumerism and rising debt.  “People don’t need half the stuff they buy,” she says.  “It is wasteful because it takes so much energy to produce.  And getting manufacturers to use less packaging seems impossible.”

Getting manufacturers to use less packaging seems impossible

Every fortnight their local council collects cardboard and paper (thanks to the mailing preference service, the family gets no direct mail) and green waste, including anything that can be used as compost.  In the Ewing household that also means vegetable peel and apple cores!  Their aluminium cans, silver foil and glass go to the local recycling centre.

While the Ewings’ old clothes, books and toys are sent to charity shops, stamps and postcards go to Marie Curie Cancer Care and mobile phones end up at Great Ormond Street Hospital.  Ink cartridges are returned to Curry’s, while empty batteries are put in in-store battery recycling boxes in PC World, Dixons or Currys.

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