Oxfam’s Trading Director, David McCullough has responded to today’s announcement that M&S will move forward in the next stage of the Plan A sustainability journey. The trading director said that Oxfam is thrilled to be partnering with M&S and is encouraged by the ambitious focus of Plan A’s next phase.
The company has donated four million items to the shops to help British shoppers begin purchasing recycled clothing, he added. Clothing that would have otherwise ended up in various landfill sites around the country.
The donated clothing has helped to raise £2 million which is in turn used for charitable causes helping to save lives. M&S have announced in the next phase of Plan A that they will recycle up to 20 million items by 2015 and Oxfam has joined in to support the next stage of the scheme.
The scheme combines the charitable cause of supporting underpaid workers in factories in Bangladesh with the much needed recycling increase in the garment industry. Marks & Spencers, added Mr McCullough, is making a great effort to help clothing workers in developing countries as well as incorporating garment recycling into the industry.
M&S has become a strong voice for building sustainable living wages in developing countries which often use workers at desperately low wages to turn out cheaper items.
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