{"id":380419,"date":"2010-03-02T05:18:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T10:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/applications\/blogs\/pressoffice\/?p=11292"},"modified":"2010-03-02T05:18:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T10:18:38","slug":"oxfam-reaction-to-ms-plan-a-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/380419","title":{"rendered":"Oxfam reaction to M&amp;S Plan A announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to today&#8217;s announcement from M&amp;S regarding the next phase of Plan A sustainability journey, David McCullough, Oxfam&#8217;s Trading Director, said:<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;re delighted to be a partner with M&amp;S and we&#8217;re impressed by the ambition set out in the next phase of Plan A. We know British shoppers want to recycle and they have donated four million items of M&amp;S clothing to our shops, which would have otherwise gone to landfill. This has raised \u00a32 million, helping us to save lives. M&amp;S have set a bold target to recycle 20 million garments by 2015 and we are right behind them in support of that goal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know workers in the clothing industry in developing countries still earn desperately low wages and don&#8217;t know their rights, so Marks and Spencer&#8217;s innovative approach to tackling low wages in three factories in Bangladesh shows positive change is possible. It should encourage other brands and retailers to build a living wage into their own price negotiations, bringing forward the day when workers can make a living by supplying clothes to UK shoppers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to today&#8217;s announcement from M&amp;S regarding the next phase of Plan A sustainability journey, David McCullough, Oxfam&#8217;s Trading Director, said: &#8220;We&#8217;re delighted to be a partner with M&amp;S and we&#8217;re impressed by the ambition set out in the next phase of Plan A. We know British shoppers want to recycle and they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}