{"id":31414,"date":"2014-02-15T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/wonder-what-happens-to-your-oxfam-donations-sorted\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T12:43:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T05:43:42","slug":"wonder-what-happens-to-your-oxfam-donations-sorted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/wonder-what-happens-to-your-oxfam-donations-sorted\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonder what happens to your Oxfam donations? Sorted"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThanks partly to a huge recycling plant, Oxfam can spend 84p in \u00a31 on helping others. Rebecca Smithers went to see for herselfFrom a vast metal cage at the end of a warehouse men in high-vis jackets are ripping open hundreds of bags full of clothing and more. A rainbow of sweatshirts, T-shirts, knitted sweaters, curtains, blankets and shoes \u2013 and even a striking adult dinosaur onesie \u2013 comes tumbling out on to a series of conveyor belts, signalling the beginning of a complex sorting process, virtually all of which is done by hand.”I’ve had the occasional Vivienne Westwood number,” chirps one sorter as she ploughs her way through a sea of clothes. Standing in a row of six “podiums”, their experienced eyes are trained to spot quality or designer clothes, or leather or heavy wool coats that fetch good prices in eastern Europe. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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