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Global Change Awards

Recycling Story / Nyloop

30 June 2025

5 minutes

This visualises the process flow: Starting with textile waste, CircularFabrics recovers nylon in the form of powder from the textile matrix. The powder is then transformed into pellets which can be used to spin yarns, for example. .

How CircularFabrics is Redefining Nylon Recycling Through Low-Impact Chemistry

CircularFabrics is tackling one of synthetic fashion’s toughest challenges—recycling nylon from blended waste—through its pioneering Nyloop technology. Unlike conventional methods, Nyloop preserves polymer integrity without high energy input, offering a sustainable and cost-effective alternative. CEO and Co-Founder Josephine Mayer explains how this process could help brands meet EU circularity goals while building scalable, decentralised recycling systems.

Subir Ghosh

Interview

Collection: Sea Change

Innovation / GCA 2025

20 May 2025

4 minutes

The ten winners for 2025 have a shared mission: decarbonising the textiles and fashion industry.

H&M Foundation Announces Global Change Award Winners for 2025, Focus on Decarbonising Textiles and Fashion Industry

A bunch of 10 innovators, with the shared mission of decarbonising the textile and fashion industry, has won the Global Change Award for 2025 for their bold and pioneering ideas, who, as changemakers, are tackling some of fashion’s most urgent challenges: from reducing emissions and energy use, to enabling circularity and cleaner materials.

Staff Writer

Innovation / GCA Awards 2024

25 October 2024

2 minutes

The Global Change Award is seeking innovative ideas addressing different high emission areas across the textile industry value chain, including sustainable materials and processes, responsible production, mindful consumption, and ‘wildcards’.

New Round of Global Change Award to Focus on Innovation for Net-Zero Textiles Industry by 2050

In a major update, the Global Change Award and its Changemaker Programme will now back a wider range of changemakers with early-stage innovations and, in a departure from an open application system, it will operate a nomination-based process. A total of 10 winners stand to receive €200,000 each.

Staff Writer

Innovation / GCA 2023

9 June 2023

3 minutes

Global Change Award winners Announced, H&M Doubles Grant and Winners

The 2023 edition of the Global Change Award has a total of 10 winners and will share a €2 million grant from nonprofit H&M Foundation. The grant has been doubled.

Staff Writer

Innovation / GCA Awards 2023

22 October 2022

2 minutes

The entries are reviewed by H&M Foundation together with Accenture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, The Mills Fabrica and an international panel of experts with extensive knowledge covering the entire value chain in the fashion and textile industry, business, investments, entrepreneurship and innovation.

Global Change Awards Open to Turn the Fashion Industry Planet-Positive

The Global Change Award (GCA), which seeks to transform fashion and turn the entire industry planet-positive, has started accepting applications for the 2022 edition. For GCA 2023, the organisers have updated the scope to cover more ground, raise the bar on innovation and help shift the industry into a planet positive one.

Staff Writer

Innovation / GCA Awards

21 September 2022

3 minutes

Every year the H&M Foundation invites innovators and entrepreneurs from all over the world to submit their early stage ideas on how to improve the sustainable footprint of the fashion and textile industry. The five most promising innovations share a grant of €1 million and participate in a one-year tailor-made GCA Impact Accelerator programme.

Applications for Global Change Award 2023 Are Now Open

The next round of Global Change Award (GCA) that opens 20 October for 2023, the GCA is looking for five winning teams who will share a grant of €1 million for solutions that steer the textile-fashion industry towards circularity, work out innovative solutions enabling growth within planetary boundaries. and something pathbreaking not "even thought about yet." texfash.com brings the details.