HKRITA Partnered with H&M Foundation For 5 years to Research and Development on Sustainable Textiles
H&M Foundation will increase its financial commitment to $12 million to accelerate its goal of a closed-loop textile industry. This extends a partnership of the past four years.
HKRITA, which is hosted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, will conduct research on technology breakthroughs while working closely with H&M Foundation to commercialize these. The research projects have substantial support from the Innovation and Technology Fund of the Hong Kong SAR government.
For example, one of the successful technologies developed over the first partnership — a hydrothermal separation treatment, which is also known as The Green Machine — has been used in Monki’s latest collection. Meanwhile, the first retail model of the Garment to Garment Recycling System (G2G), a solution from the first partnership, has been implemented at H&M in Stockholm.
The projects under the new five-year Planet First program include carbon-dioxide-capturing cellulose textiles, bio-removal of denim indigo by macroalgae, regenerated cellulose fiber and the development of a super-absorbent polymer.
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