This is Not Just Food…
16-01-2008
{mosimage} Marks & Spencer and Oxfam have considerately created a clothes exchange
programme to encourage the recycling of unwanted clothes. Not only will it help
reduce the current one million tonnes of clothing that goes to UK landfills
each year, it'll help Oxfam reduce injustice and poverty in over 70 developing
countries.
How
does the programme work? Well, pop along to Oxfam with at least one
M&S item of clothing and a bagful of last season's names, or anything else but
underwear for that matter, and exchange it for a £5 M&S voucher. Go to
M&S and spend £35 on M&S homeware, clothing or beauty products and get
£5 discount with your voucher; simple.
M&S Chief Executive Sir Stuart Rose commented: "We are pleased that we
have teamed up with Oxfam, the UK's biggest charity shop to help customers to
raise money for developing countries by recycling their clothes they no longer
need. It's a triple win – it's good for customers, good for people in
developing countries and good for the environment."
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Oxfam Director Barbara Stocking (I know!) also commented: "This
partnership is an enormous opportunity and Oxfam is very excited to be working
with M&S to help make a real difference to global poverty. Recycling
and reusing clothes and anything else we can sell, has always been central to
Oxfam's fundraising, as well as being good for the environment. Through our
unique textile sorting facility and the resourcefulness and skills of our
specialist staff, Oxfam is able to make the most from all the clothes we
receive. People's unwanted clothes really will raise much needed money to help
people living in poverty."
So, if you're tired of facing that ongoing, silent inner struggle with yourself
when attempting to throw out that favourite over/undersized shirt or dress,
now's the time to succumb to the plea of sanity and reason! Go on, raid your
wardrobe and save the world. And a fiver at M&S in the eco-friendly
process!
Find out more here – http://www.oxfam.org.uk/
By
Ant Standring
