{"id":9594,"date":"2018-02-24T05:12:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T05:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=9594"},"modified":"2018-02-24T05:12:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T05:12:24","slug":"virgin-trains-and-hmp-northumberland-transform-old-uniforms-in-pioneering-recycle-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/virgin-trains-and-hmp-northumberland-transform-old-uniforms-in-pioneering-recycle-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Trains and HMP Northumberland transform old uniforms in pioneering recycle scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu (Pahichan) February 24 &#8211; Approximately 30 million tonnes of corporate wear are sent to landfill each year in the UK. In an effort to provide a creative solution to this,\u00a0<strong>Virgin Trains<\/strong>\u2019 old uniforms are being transformed into new items by prisoners in its onsite textiles factory. The innovative partnership is part of a rehabilitation scheme that helps to prepare prisoners for life outside, in an effort to reduce reoffending rates.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative developed by Virgin Trains and HMP Northumberland (supported by Hubbub), will see prisoners transforming the old uniforms into warm new items such as blankets, bags and coats to help those living on the streets. The upcycled garments are being donated to local homeless charity,\u00a0<strong>The Albert Kennedy Trust<\/strong>\u00a0which supports young\u00a0<strong>LGBT<\/strong>\u00a0homeless people in crisis, HMP Askham Grange and Virgin Trains\u2019 charity partner, Rethink Mental Illness.<\/p>\n<p>On receiving the old uniforms,\u00a0<strong>Steven Goodacre<\/strong>, Head of Business Development at HMP Northumberland, said;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re delighted to be partnering with Virgin Trains on its uniform upcycling initiative. Not only is it great to be giving back to local and national homeless charities, but it\u2019s also a fantastic opportunity for our offenders within the establishment to learn new skills which will help them once they have been released, while also decreasing the likelihood of reoffending.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zinzi Dzuda<\/strong>, Responsible Business Manager, Virgin Trains commented;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirgin Trains has a passion for sustainability, so when it came to launching our new uniforms we wanted to make sure our old ones were being recycled in the best way possible. This environmental collaboration with\u00a0<strong>HMP Northumberland<\/strong>\u00a0gives our old uniforms a new lease of life and is a creative solution to achieving zero waste to landfill, whilst also supporting vulnerable people across our patch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photo Virgin Trains staff deliver old uniforms to HMP Northumberland for pioneering recycle scheme .<\/p>\n<p>Copy :\u00a0mysocalledgaylife.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu (Pahichan) February 24 &#8211; Approximately 30 million tonnes of corporate wear are sent to landfill each year in the UK. In an effort to provide a creative solution to this,\u00a0Virgin Trains\u2019 old uniforms are being transformed into new items by prisoners in its onsite textiles factory. The innovative partnership is part of a rehabilitation scheme that helps to prepare prisoners for life outside, in an effort to reduce reoffending rates.<br \/>\nThe initiative developed by Virgin Trains and HMP Northumberland (supported by Hubbub), will see prisoners transforming the old uniforms into &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[621,490,11],"tags":[524],"class_list":["post-9594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-slider","category-world","tag-lgbt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9597,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594\/revisions\/9597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}