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So does H&M > the boxes and sorts the contents into three categories: > Rewear: Wearable clothes are marketed as secondhand clothing. > Reuse: If the clothes

So does H&M > the boxes and sorts the contents into three categories: > Rewear: Wearable clothes are marketed as secondhand clothing. > Reuse: If the clothes or textiles are not suitable for rewear, they’re turned into other products, such as remake collections or cleaning cloths. > Recycle: All other clothes and textiles are shredded into textile fibers and used to make, for example, insulation materials. The "Rewear" category is reselling the clothing.

flakeoil 4y ago
I'm not sure how much of H&M clothes are really collected after use, but at least they have invested in a company that works on recycling fibers from clothes. They own over 10% of it. Probably some of what they collect goes to this Renewcell company for recycling. https://www.renewcell.com/en/ https://www.renewcell.com/en/
csharpminor 4y ago
They’re being sued for misleading statements about their sustainability: https://www.thefashionlaw.com/hm-is-being-sued-over-misleading-sustainability-marketing-product-scorecards/ https://www.thefashionlaw.com/hm-is-being-sued-over-misleadi... Don’t fall for their narrative.
- discreteevent 4y ago
  I happen to know someone who works in a H&M store. They throw out any returned items even if they haven't been worn once. It's cheaper than having to put the work into sorting them.
  - vertis 4y ago
    There is often a disconnect between management and lower levels. I suspect the store would probably get in trouble for this behaviour. Not least because it opens the company up to fines for false advertising (e.g. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission regularly polices companies operating in Australia, which H&M does)
    - banannaise 4y ago
      Employees perform the behaviors you incentivize. H&M can have an official policy that disagrees, but if their employees are incentivized not to comply, then they won't, and that's H&M's fault. See also: Wells Fargo; Amazon
      - vertis 4y ago
        Oh Agreed. A systems problem. A former company that I worked for wanted their customers (Real Estate Agents) to fill out profiles. They wanted the account managers to encourage this behaviour so they tied the bonus/commission to having it filled out. Needless to say, the customers had very little interest in filling out the profiles. I found all the account managers sitting around a table at a conference filling them out themselves instead of talking to the customers (as they should have been at the event). A few even discovered they could fill the fields with '.' characters and game the system (they got caught and fired for crossing the line). The others just wasted valuable time they could have been selling products and got their bonuses. See Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

flakeoil 4y ago

I'm not sure how much of H&M clothes are really collected after use, but at least they have invested in a company that works on recycling fibers from clothes. They own over 10% of it. Probably some of what they collect goes to this Renewcell company for recycling. https://www.renewcell.com/en/ https://www.renewcell.com/en/

csharpminor 4y ago

They’re being sued for misleading statements about their sustainability: https://www.thefashionlaw.com/hm-is-being-sued-over-misleading-sustainability-marketing-product-scorecards/ https://www.thefashionlaw.com/hm-is-being-sued-over-misleadi... Don’t fall for their narrative.

discreteevent 4y ago
I happen to know someone who works in a H&M store. They throw out any returned items even if they haven't been worn once. It's cheaper than having to put the work into sorting them.
- vertis 4y ago
  There is often a disconnect between management and lower levels. I suspect the store would probably get in trouble for this behaviour. Not least because it opens the company up to fines for false advertising (e.g. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission regularly polices companies operating in Australia, which H&M does)
  - banannaise 4y ago
    Employees perform the behaviors you incentivize. H&M can have an official policy that disagrees, but if their employees are incentivized not to comply, then they won't, and that's H&M's fault. See also: Wells Fargo; Amazon
    - vertis 4y ago
      Oh Agreed. A systems problem. A former company that I worked for wanted their customers (Real Estate Agents) to fill out profiles. They wanted the account managers to encourage this behaviour so they tied the bonus/commission to having it filled out. Needless to say, the customers had very little interest in filling out the profiles. I found all the account managers sitting around a table at a conference filling them out themselves instead of talking to the customers (as they should have been at the event). A few even discovered they could fill the fields with '.' characters and game the system (they got caught and fired for crossing the line). The others just wasted valuable time they could have been selling products and got their bonuses. See Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive