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Machine at H&M store converts old clothes into new

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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.

H&M & HKRITA to open recycling facilities in HK

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H&M Foundation and The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) have announced the opening of two textile recycling facilities, which will put HKRITA’s hydrothermal method for recycling cotton and polyester blends to use.