# One million recycled M&S hangers raise £370k for UNICEF - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/02/07/one-million-recycled-mamps-hangers-raise-370k-unicef/ - Published: 2012-02-07T17:20:17+00:00 - Author: Howard Lake ![](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/files/images/news/mands_unicef_hanger_recyling. jpg) ![](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/files/images/news/mands_unicef_hanger_recyling_0. jpg) Marks and Spencer customers have recycled 100 million clothes hangers in six months and raised £370,000 for UNICEF in the process. Since the partnership launched in July 2011, M&S customers have been invited to leave hangers behind when shopping, rather than take them home, so that they could be used again in store or recycled. M&S made the donation because of the savings it helped them achieve. M&S donates 50p for every £1 saved from hanger recycling to UNICEF, to fund a new project in two locations within the Mymensingh and Dhaka regions of Bangladesh. ## Advertisement [⌊Posthub advert. You create the campaign. We'll handle the postal journey. Get started at post-hub.co.uk.⌉](https://fundraising.co.uk/ads/posthub-20261007-300x250/) All intact hangers are shipped back to [M&S](http://www.marks-and-spencer.com) garment manufacturers to be reused, and shipped in containers that would have previously been travelling back to their destination empty. Damaged hangers are reground and turned back into hangers; and the metal hooks are melted down and reused. Even the cardboard boxes used to house the hangers are reused at least four times, then recycled, according to M&S. www.unicef.org.uk * **[British Heart Foundation partners with The Recycling Factory](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/02/29/british-heart-foundation-partners-recycling-factory/)**( 29 February 2012) * **[Recycling centres to raise funds for local charities](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/04/05/recycling-centres-raise-funds-local-charities/)**( 5 April 2012) * **[Tesco collects used electrical goods to benefit Cancer Research UK](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/06/21/tesco-collects-used-electrical-goods-benefit-cancer-research-uk/)**( 21 June 2012)