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The facilities will be located at the Novetex Factory in Tai Po Industrial Estate, Hong Kong. The opening date has not been disclosed. The H&M Foundation is set to invest 5.8 million euro (approximately 7 million US dollars) in the project, over the next four years. HKRITA and the H&M Foundation have been partners since 2016. H&M intends to spend a total of 30 million euros in joint textile recycling projects between 2016 and 2020.

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The scientists at Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA), have found new technology to extract and reuse polyester fibers infinitely into new clothes as each year only a fraction is recycled of the 80 billion pieces of clothing produced and it is currently working for cotton-polyester blended fabrics, the institute announced last month.

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The non-profit H&M Foundation and The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) have developed a new technology, a hydrotherm (Chemical) process through which recycle blend textiles can to converted into new fabrics and yarns without losing its quality.

Erik Bang, Innovation Lead at H&M Foundation said that they are very excited to develop this technology and scale it beyond the laboratory, which will benefit the global environment, people and communities.

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H&M Foundation, the Swedish retailer’s nonprofit arm which has committed to collecting used clothes in stores in an effort to keep them out of landfills and give them a second life has teamed up with the HongKong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) to develop the required technologies to recycle blended textiles into new fabrics and yarns.

The four-year partnership aims to create a commercially viable and scalable technology that can be licensed widely to ensure broad market access and maximum impact.