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Wastesaver |
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Oxfam find a use for everything that is donated.
Would you send your old bras to a charity shop? Most of us would cringe with horror at the thought of it but bras are one of Oxfam’s most valuable second-hand resources because they sell to a booming and appreciative market in developing countries. They are sorted and packed at Oxfam’s own recycling plant - called Wastesaver - and everything that does not immediately fly off the rails in the charity’s high street shops ends up there to be re-directed to a more appropriate market place. Anything from twenty tonnes of old blankets, to a Mary Quant original. The plant makes around a million pounds a year for Oxfam and Caz Graham has been to Huddersfield to see how it works and to meet manager Tony Clark, Sarah Farquhar - Oxfam’s Head of Retail - and some of the sorting staff.
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