Green Options » plan a http://greenoptions.com/tag/plan-a Posts tagged 'plan a' Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:59:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en 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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