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Global Change Award 2018: 'We need to speed up the shift towards a circular economy'

Stockholm - Making new fibers and textiles out of food crop wastewas the public's favourite sustainable innovation from the 2018 Global Change Award, as the Crop-A-Porter has been named the main winner of the H&M Foundation's annual innovation competition. Winning a 300,000 euro grant, in addition to mentoring and access to the year-long...

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H&M Global Change to invest in making waste-cotton new

London - The Finnish team behind making waste-cotton new has received the most votes in H&M’s first Global Change Awards. The conversion of waste-cotton into new textiles will receive the highest grant of 300,000 euros after receiving 31 percent of the online vote. “This prestigious grant will allow us to lift our technology closer to an...