{"id":64004,"date":"2024-05-12T21:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/may\/12\/plastics-body-shop-recycling-startup-india-plastics-for-change"},"modified":"2024-05-12T21:00:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T12:00:02","slug":"the-body-shop-held-our-hand-how-the-troubled-british-firm-helped-a-recycling-startup-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64004","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Body Shop held our hand\u2019: how the troubled British firm helped a recycling startup in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The high street retailer may be shutting shops in the UK but its legacy lives on for a plastics company which continues to help improve the lives of  India\u2019s waste pickers<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in a sultry corner of southern India, beside the rain trees and beaches of Mangalore, Shifrah Jacobs, the co-founder of Plastics for Change, smiles as she recalls how it all began. One thing she says she won\u2019t ever forget is the Body Shop for its big-heartedness when her company was a wet-behind-the-ears startup.<\/p>\n<p>The Body Shop, whose main UK business <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/feb\/13\/the-body-shop-collapses-into-administration-in-uk\">collapsed<\/a> into administration in February, has closed more than 80 stores in its home market and is seeking a rescue deal with landlords, while outlets in the US, Canada and parts of Europe have also shut down.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/may\/12\/plastics-body-shop-recycling-startup-india-plastics-for-change\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The high street retailer may be shutting shops in the UK but its legacy lives on for a plastics company which continues to help improve the lives of  India\u2019s waste pickersSitting in a sultry corner of southern India, beside the rain trees and beaches o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4207,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,847,65,303,59,62,266,302,61,304,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-employment","category-environment","category-ethical-and-green-living","category-global-development","category-india","category-plastics","category-recycling","category-south-and-central-asia","category-waste","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64005,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64004\/revisions\/64005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}