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."

  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

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