H&M Foundation

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.

Waste entrepreneurs, waste workers in India’s Silicon Valley have been brought under the aegis of the H&M Foundation to enable textile waste collection, sorting, and selling to generate revenue for waste pickers, as also create a circular B2B textile service model, starting with the hotel industry.

The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) has tapped into high frequency ultrasound to remove polluting microplastics from textile-apparel manufacturing facilities, preventing them from going into the sea and further damaging marine life. 

Saamuhika Shakti is a collective impact initiative wherein nine organisations have joined forces to enable informal wastepickers have greater agency to lead secure and dignified lives. The initiative has also caught the attention of the fashion industry looking for recycled plastic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.