As impatient change makers, we are curious to explore new ways of using innovation as a driver for change. Learn from Anna Gedda, Global Manager at H&M Foundation, how we are working with GCA right now – to make an even bigger impact.
Around 100 million tonnes textile waste is created annually, but the rate of recycling old textiles into new garments remains low. The Smart Garment Sorting System aims to change that by leveraging the power of artificial intelligence and advanced image analysis techniques, including hyperspectral spectroscopy.
During 2017-2022, H&M Foundation and its partner WaterAid reached over 400,000 people with water, sanitation and hygiene as part of our Global Programme for water. The SusWASH programme was a great success, also for WaterAid who’s captured its learnings in a global learning report (2022) and policy and practice brief (2022), which are being used in a number of ways in their work going forward.
Inclusive circularity is key in a positive future for the textile industry. These startups have integrated social inclusion in their circular business models from the get go. Explore the latest updates from four of our Techtonic winners.
To radically transform the textile industry, the boldest ideas must succeed. Here, we check in with three future-shaping innovators whose digital tools, ground-breaking materials, and regenerative processes are reshaping the textile industry in real-time.
H&M Foundation and Saamuhika Shakti are expanding on the inclusive circularity learnings and welcome two new partners that are developing Circular Textiles Waste Management Models (CTWM), with waste pickers playing the lead role.
Transforming fashion is a high mountain to climb. To succeed, we need more innovation, and to find those disruptive innovations a lot of ideas need to be screened.
During 2014-2022, H&M Foundation and its partner CARE supported over 270,000 women entrepreneurs from emerging markets. As part of the programme’s last phase two reports have been created with the goal to consolidate and integrate the lessons learned from the program both towards external stakeholders and internally within the confederation.
The Collective Impact method can help drive the systems change needed to address the underlying root causes of complex problems and tackle the drivers of poverty and inequality. We explore how two CI initiatives are delivering change for waste pickers in India and readymade garment workers in Bangladesh through deep collaboration.
