M&S, New Look, Sainsbury's and Oxfam Join Forces to Boost the UK's Circular Textile Economy

London, UK – September 2026 – New Look, M&S, Sainsbury's, Oxfam and Circle-8 today announce The Circuit, a new collaborative model bringing together retailers, textile recovery partners, automated sorting, recyclers, digital innovators and manufacturers to build new circular textile value chains and transform UK generated post-consumer textiles into future circular raw materials.

The first phase will focus on testing, learning and developing the operational frameworks needed to support future scale-up.