Plays with YouTube's privacy-enhanced embed How H&M’s Recycling Machines Make New Clothes From Used Apparel | World Wide Waste
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Cited in threads on textile waste and clothing supply chains as an example of an industrial recycling attempt, with some skepticism about how far it progressed.
A Business Insider World Wide Waste episode on H&M's garment recycling machines, which turn used clothing into new apparel. It asks whether a fast fashion company can solve the waste problem it helped create.
Pull quote: “I was fascinated by attempts to "process" old fabrics and mix them with other fabrics to create new garments” (HN, 2024)
Also tagged: textile recycling, h&m, fast fashion, clothing recycling, sustainability, textile waste
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