Green Options » marks & spencer http://greenoptions.com/tag/marks-spencer Posts tagged 'marks & spencer' Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:00:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Lingerie Party http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/08/13/lingerie-party/ http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/08/13/lingerie-party/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:00:19 +0000 Lucille Chi http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/08/13/lingerie-party/

  1. MAS Holdings, Sri Lanka’s biggest apparel company, has a new lingerie factory backed by Marks & Spencer (M&S), who is one of their best clients. The undergarment factory uses 40% less energy than a factory of the same size and the electricity is from renewable sources like 10% from on-site solar panels and the other 90% from hydro-power plant energy. MAS is reported to be the world’s first carbon-neutral clothes factory.

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    ]]> http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/08/13/lingerie-party/feed/ Life Goggles: Marks & Spencer and Oxfam Exchange Clothes http://sustainablog.org/2008/04/14/life-goggles-marks-spencer-and-oxfam-exchange-clothes/ http://sustainablog.org/2008/04/14/life-goggles-marks-spencer-and-oxfam-exchange-clothes/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:59:29 +0000 Jeff McIntire-Strasburg http://sustainablog.org/2008/04/14/life-goggles-marks-spencer-and-oxfam-exchange-clothes/ Editor’s note: Most weeks, we feature product reviews from our friends at Life Goggles. In this week’s post, though, Joel takes a look at British retailer Marks & Spencer’s innovative approach to dealing with products at the end of their useful lives: clothing recycling. This post was originally published on Tuesday, April 8, 2008.

    ms_plana.jpgFor 6 months (that started at the end of January), Marks & Spencer (M&S) have joined forces with Oxfam to set up a clothing exchange. Designed with the dual purpose of encouraging people to recycle clothes and raise money for Oxfam’s work, customers who donate M&S clothes to Oxfam will receive a voucher £5/€7, valid for one month, to use with their next purchase of £35/€50 or more. Although buying new clothes paid for with old clothes isn’t the best way of doing things in my opinion, it’s certainly not a bad way of encouraging people to recycle clothes if they are planning on buying more anyway. And perhaps they’ll find something they like in Oxfam!

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