M&S and Oxfam launch UK’s biggest Clothes Exchange

Marks & Spencer and Oxfam have joined forces to launch the ‘M&S and Oxfam Clothes Exchange’, the biggest programme in the UK to encourage consumers to recycle their clothes.

The Exchange is designed to both raise money for Oxfam’s work to tackle poverty and injustice and to reduce the one million tonnes of clothing sent by the public to landfill in the UK each year.

One £5 voucher will be provided in return for donations containing at least one piece of M&S labelled clothing or accessory - lingerie, swimwear and other ‘smalls’ won’t count. The vouchers will be given out in Oxfam’s 790 stores across the UK and Republic of Ireland, from 28 January.

Sir Stuart Rose, Chief Executive, Marks & Spencer said: ‘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.’