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For years, the fashion industry has been trying to crack the nut on a problem: How to recycle old clothes into new ones, the way we currently recycle cardboard or aluminum? The science is nearly there and we're seeing it in action in Bangladesh, a global hub for fast fashion manufacturing.

H&M and Target joined forces with recycling companies to build machines that will recycle fabric scraps and dead-stock. It could eventually be applied to used clothes. If this project works, imagine how it could transform the fashion industry? Read more here.

—Liz Segran

fashion

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