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H&M Foundation with HKRITA to develop tech to recycle blended textiles

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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.

H&M Foundation to offers €1m grant for innovators in fashion industry

Related Keywords: challenges facing fashion industry, creating clothes for growing population, fashion innovators, Global Change Awards, H&M Foundation, ideas to make fashion more sustainable, improving its impact on environment, offering a million euro grant

The H&M Foundation’s Global Change Awards now in its second year take on one of the biggest challenges facing the fashion industry today – creating clothes for a growing population, while improving its impact on the environment. The foundation is offering a million euro grant for innovators with ideas about how to make fashion more sustainable.

Last year’s winning ideas include clothing made of citrus by-products, microbes that digest waste polyester and an online marketplace for textile leftovers.

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