Innovation
Our focus is on early-stage innovation and empowering changemakers, supporting the development of their ideas, and fostering the growth of solutions that contribute to decarbonization of the textile industry.
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Why the future of cotton might not need a field
A project between the Spanish hydroponic-farming company Magtech and H&M Group’s Circular Innovation Lab is testing a different way to grow cotton: without soil and in a closed loop of…
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GCA Impact story: How Resortecs is scaling textile recycling
With more than one million garments already produced using dissolvable thread, Resortecs is showing what design for disassembly can look like in practice. The company’s technology addresses one of textile…
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Raising capital: lessons from three founders scaling circular innovation
Raising capital is often described as a numbers game. For textile innovators, it can mean speaking to more than 100 investors before finding the right partner. We asked three former…
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Meet the winners of the Global Change Award 2026
The ten winners of Global Change Award 2026 are here, and they are tackling key pressure points across the textile industry: from materials to production to end of use. Different…
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GCA Impact story: How Ponda is restoring ecosystems at scale
When Ponda won the Global Change Award in 2022, they set out to prove that a supply chain could restore ecosystems rather than exhaust them. Three years on, they’ve raised…
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Why fashion is less circular than ever – and what it’ll take to change course
Over the last decade, circularity has been one of the loudest conversations in the textile industry. Today, resale platforms are growing, innovative solutions are gaining traction and circular business models…
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Reverse Resources: A decade of mapping, tracing and trading textile waste
GCA 2016 winner Reverse Resources started from an idea that was invisible to the textile industry. Because before you can recycle textile waste at scale, you need to know what…
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Meet the experts shaping GCA 2026
With Global Change Award 2026 underway, we’re introducing this year’s Expert Panel: a group of industry leaders and thinkers bringing experience from across the textile system. Their combined insight will…
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“The choices we made in the difficult years shaped the factories we run today”
Meet Kajari Hossain – a fictional factory owner from Dhaka, imagined in our science-based scenario Reweaving Fashion & Textiles 2050. Her voice is rooted in research, inspired by today’s industry…