The award-winning in-store recycling machine, Looop, first cleans the old material, followed by shredding and spinning it into yarn which is used to knit a new product. Looop is the winner of the Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards.
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A four-year study by the Renewal Workshop revealed 82 per cent of what is considered apparel and textile waste can actually be renewed and resold, effectively meaning brands are ‘sitting on their next supply chain’, it said.
The Swedish retailer H&M’s non-profit arm H&M Foundation, 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 Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) to develop the required technologies to recycle blended textiles into new fabrics and yarns.
A fabric touch tester and an imaging colour measurement system for textile and garment industry developed by Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) have the potential to become industry testing and measurement standards in the textiles industry.