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Garment-to-garment recycle system wins Red Dot award

26/03/2019
The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) has won the 2019 Red Dot Award for product design. Red Dot is an international design prize, awarded each year by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen.

HKRITA won for its garment-to-garment recycle system (G2G), which the institute has described as a mini production line that recycles post-consumer garments into clean and wearable clothes. It is located at The Mills, an art and cultural complex in Hong Kong.

It consists of unit the size of a standard 40-foot shipping container, made of glass, which HKRITA has said can be easily replicated and operated in community spaces such as shopping malls. Visitors can look inside and view the components that run the system, turning old clothes into renewable clothes. The hope is that this will encourage more people to recycle their own used clothes.

“We want to demystify the whole recycling process,” said Edwin Keh, chief executive of HKRITA. “We want the public to understand the intrinsic value of the clothes that they have and how much more we can do with them.” 


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