It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

H&M Foundation

Climate Action / Lead Funder

17 November 2022

2 minutes

A group of men in a rural valley, using working horses to move felled timber, in traditional forest management. Apparel Impact Institute is building a $250M Fashion Climate Fund (combined industry and philanthropic sources) to unlock a total of $2B in blended capital towards verified impact solutions, thereby removing up to 150 million tonnes of CO2 from the apparel supply chain.

Target Corp to be New Lead Funder of $250 million Fashion Climate Fund

Target Corporation would be a new lead funder of the $250 million Fashion Climate Fund of the Apparel Impact Institute, which is working towards meeting the fashion industry's step towards reducing carbon emissions.

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

Textile Recycling / Green Machine

17 October 2022

6 minutes

The Green Machine is licensed by HKRITA at cost price, meaning it only covers their costs with no extra margins. For H&M Foundation and HKRITA this open-source approach is key to reach maximum impact and to transform the fashion industry.

HKRITA’s Green Machine is Breakthrough that Recycling of Blended Textiles Needed, at Scale

The ITMF award that the Green Machine received in September is only the latest feather in its decorated cap. Developed by the Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA), the Green Machine has been making waves since its launch in 2016. Katherine Chan, Director (Business Development) at HKRITA, talks about the challenges that had to be encountered, and the excitement that the Green Machine has generated.

Subir Ghosh

Interview

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.

Staff Writer

Recycling / G2G System

17 June 2022

6 minutes

The recycling process can be configured in a 40-foot container, including the 3-in-1 Integrated Opening-Cleaning-Carding System with AI algorithms to optimise the system.

HKRITA Shows Garment-to-Garment Recycling Can Be Done, But Industry Yet to Catch Up

The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel's (HKRITA) novel Garment-to-Garment (G2G) Recycle System shows that integral and closed-loop garment recycling can indeed be done, and sans any water and chemicals, but no big-time manufacturer or brand has been able to use this innovation at the industrial or mass scale. A texfash.com Special.

Subir Ghosh

Report

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

9 June 2022

4 minutes

Dry waste collection center in Bengaluru

Recycled plastic collected by waste pickers now featured on garments sold worldwide

BENGALURU, India: Together with an ecosystem of partners the non-profit H&M Foundation launched a first of its kind USD 11 million initiative in 2020, to address the gaps in the system that keep Bengaluru waste pickers in poverty and exclusion. Now, plastic waste collected by informal waste pickers is becoming a valued resource in the fashion and...

Climate Crisis / Funding

8 June 2022

2 minutes

It's Raining Funds: AII Announces Lead Funders for $250 Million Fashion Climate Fund

The Apparel Impact Institute (AII) has announced the lead funders in its new $250 million Fashion Climate Fund. A ﬁrst-of-its-kind collaborative funding model for fashion could unlock an estimated $2 billion in blended capital across various asset classes, to help meet the industry's goal to halve carbon emissions by 2030.