M&S: Britons wasting £91m of clothes that have been worn just once

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M&S customers "shwop" half a million items of clothing as part of campaign aiming to boost clothes recycling

British consumers are chucking more than £90m worth of once-worn clothes into landfill every year, according to new research from Marks & Spencer that aims to boost awareness of its latest clothes recycling...

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