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Turning ambition into action: why planet positive is fashion’s new must-have
Christiane Dolva, Strategy Lead H&M Foundation Keeping up with every new sustainability term isn’t easy. While some are products of corporate communication and marketing campaigns, most new terms...
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Recycled plastic collected by waste pickers turned into 152 million buttons
Buttons partly made from plastic waste collected by informal waste pickers in Bengaluru are being featured on garments sold worldwide. The buttons are traceable down to the source of the waste along...
View ArticleCollaboration is key – H&M Foundation’s Anna Gedda featured in Davos Interviews
Throughout the interview they discuss that a change in mentality and conscious awareness towards the problems that society is facing, has become a key factor for many actors within the textile...
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3 experts on how the textile industry can change its course
We are in the final phase of that screening process for GCA 2023 and now the GCA 2023 Expert Panel, consisting of independent subject experts within fashion, business, investments, entrepreneurship,...
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The 20 Global Change Award 2023 finalists revealed
The winners will be announced on 8 June 2023. Stay tuned! MATERIAL Algreen (UK) Algreen invents the world’s first entirely biobased polyurethane that is both recyclable and biodegradable for...
View ArticleAcousweep separates microplastics from wastewater using soundwaves
Microplastic pollution is a globally established problem and a threat to ecosystems, animals, and people. Microplastics come from a variety of sources, including from larger plastic debris that...
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Waste pickers in the driver’s seat of new textile recycling initiative
The two new partners are Stichting Enviu Nederland (Enviu) and Intellecap’s Circular Apparel Innovation Factory (CAIF). Together with the existing collective, they will include waste workers already...
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Revisiting GCA Alumni: How EON, Dimpora & saltyco are powering the future...
The Global Change Award is a global innovation challenge seeking bright minds that can reinvent fashion and change the way it is seen, worn, and made. Every year, we select and support the most...
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Revisiting Techtonic winners: Exciting news from Ashaya, Phool, Padcare and...
H&M Foundation and Social Alpha in India joined hands to create the nationwide challenge Techtonic – Innovations for Circular Economy in 2020, to curate locally designed, disruptive innovations...
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reProLeather regenerating bio-based leather from leather waste
Regenerated leather from leather waste. Pictures from the HKRITA lab. As many industries are looking to minimize waste and save resources, the demand for recycled materials in the fashion industry has...
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Q&A with Mark Cabaj: How to measure systems change in a way that means something
Type “social impact” into Google and you get four billion results. While it might seem like a fairly new term popularized by impact investors and philanthropists in recent years, it was first used in...
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Looking back and looking ahead: Getting ready to extend Saamuhika Shakti
Manjula and her child live in one of the communities where the Saamuhika Shakti partners are working to enable informal waste pickers to have greater agency to lead secure and dignified lives. With...
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H&M Foundation and Global Fashion Agenda partner to accelerate circularity
Launched in 2022, the Global Circular Fashion Forum (GCFF) is a global initiative, established by the GFA and supported by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), which...
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