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The initiative has also caught the fashion industry's attention as they are looking for recycled plastic.

The Saamuhika Shakti initiative has seen plastic waste collected by waste pickers in India turned into 152 million recycled buttons.

Get latest articles and stories on Business at LatestLY. Stockholm [Sweden]/ In 2020, the philanthropic H&M Foundation launched a first-of-its-kind USD 11 million initiative, Saamuhika Shakti, to address the gaps in the system that keep Bengaluru waste pickers in poverty and exclusion. Plastic waste collected by informal waste pickers is becoming a valued resource in the fashion and textile industry. Buttons partly made from plastic waste are being featured on garments sold worldwide. The buttons are traceable down to the source of the waste along with names of the workers, social sec...

Stockholm [Sweden]/ Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], February 6 (ANI/PRNewswire): In 2020, the philanthropic H&M Foundation launched a first-of-its-kind USD 11 million initiative, Saamuhika Shakti, to address the gaps in the system that keep Bengaluru waste pickers in poverty and exclusion. Plastic waste collected by informal waste pickers is becoming a valued resource in the fashion and textile industry. Buttons partly made from plastic waste are being featured on garments sold worldwide. The buttons are traceable down to the source of the waste along with names of the workers, social secur...

The Apparel Impact Institute (Aii) will soon launch registry of proven carbon reduction solutions for the fashion industry.