H&M has announced the five winners of its first ever Global Change Award. The ideas include the “polyester digester,” a device that uses microbes to recycle waste polyester textile, “growing textile fiber under water,” which uses algae to make renewable textiles, and “making waste cotton new,” which uses an environmentally friendly solvent to dissolve cotton in textile waste in order to spin new cotton-like textile fibers from it. An online marketplace for textile leftovers and “100 percent citrus,” which creates new fabric out of citrus juice production by-products, complete the list.
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H&M Global Change Award winners include algae fiber, marketplace for extra textiles