71
Fashion Jobs
L'OREAL GROUP
Multi-Brand Education Manager
Permanent · JOHANNESBURG
L'OREAL GROUP
E-Commerce Manager
Permanent · JOHANNESBURG
BEIERSDORF
Brand Manager
Permanent · DURBAN
G-STAR
Key Account Manager
Permanent · CAPE TOWN
ESTÉE LAUDER COMPANIES
Marketing & Sales Operations Manager (Sub Saharan Africa)
Permanent · JOHANNESBURG
ESTÉE LAUDER COMPANIES
Marketing & Sales Operations Manager (Sub Saharan Africa)
Permanent · JOHANNESBURG
PUMA
Payroll Administrator
Permanent · CAPE TOWN
ADIDAS
Senior Manager Sales: Shoe Channel - em South
Permanent · CAPE TOWN
ADIDAS
Senior HR Business Partner (6-Months Maternity Cover)
Permanent · CAPE TOWN
L'OREAL GROUP
Product Manager
Permanent · JOHANNESBURG
TREK
Country Manager
Permanent · SANDTON
L'OREAL GROUP
E-Commerce Key Account Manager
Permanent · JOHANNESBURG
ADIDAS
ic pp Data & Analytics Specialist - em
Permanent · CAPE TOWN
BEIERSDORF
Precision Marketing & Audience Specialist
Permanent · DURBAN
CLINIQUE
Clinique - Roamer - Edgars Eastgate, Gauteng - 40 Hours - Full-Time - Permanent
Permanent · JOHANNESBURG
PANDORA
Sales Assistant Ppt 96 Hours Balito
Permanent · DURBAN
L'OREAL GROUP
Data Analyst
Permanent · JOHANNESBURG
HTNK
High-End Fashion/Denim Designer
Permanent · JOHANNESBURG
H&M
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Permanent · CAPE TOWN
ADIDAS
Specialist Franchise Excellence - Ems Africa Export
Permanent · CAPE TOWN
LOVISA
Full Time Team Member | v&a Waterfront, Cape Town
Permanent · CAPE TOWN
LOVISA
Store Manager | v&a Waterfront, Cape Town
Permanent · CAPE TOWN
Published
Feb 15, 2023
Reading time
2 minutes
Download
Download the article
Print
Text size

H&M takes deep dive into garment recycling via Looper initiative

Published
Feb 15, 2023

H&M is the latest big name to announce a major textile and garment waste initiative with the Swedish fashion retail giant working with Looper Textile Co on the new plan.


Looper


Looper is actually a joint venture that H&M part-owns with the other 50% of the business owned by waste management specialist Remondis. 

It intends to “collect, sort and sell used and unwanted garments and textiles and thereby extend the highest use of these valuable resources”.

Looper CEO Emily Bolon said that currently, less than 40% of used clothes are collected in the EU. That means 60% of post-consumer textiles go directly to waste.

“Used and unwanted garments must first be collected and sorted into different streams, such as by type of material or garment, in order to be reused or recycled. By building infrastructure and solutions for collection and sorting, we hope to move one step closer toward enabling circularity, thereby minimising the CO²-impact and improving resource efficiency,” she added.

H&M has a decade-long history in garment collecting having been the first fashion company to launch such an initiative worldwide in 2013. And via its investment arm H&M CO:LAB, it has invested in companies that develop technologies to enable textile recycling. 

But it said that the new venture means it’s “participating more directly in developing the infrastructure that is necessary to close the loop of fashion”. 

It added that working with Remondis means the standalone operation will be able to access invaluable know-how in providing collection and sorting solutions at scale.  

Looper aims to become “a preferred feedstock provider to companies and innovators engaged in textile resale and recycling”.

Starting its operations in Europe, the goal is to “extend the highest use of approximately 40 million garments during 2023. The company plans to innovate within textile collection and sorting, for example by testing new collection schemes and implementing automated sorting technologies such as near-infrared sorting, as well as by developing an assortment of partners in the areas of reuse and recycling”. 

Copyright © 2024 FashionNetwork.com All rights reserved.