Garment Collecting at H&M | H&M

1. Bring your clean, previously loved clothing or textiles to one of our stores — they can be from any brand. Find your local store here: H&M (hm.com) H&M,

2. Place clothes and textiles in the dedicated garment collection box.

3. After the garments and textiles are dropped off, we partner with Looper Textile Co. and with local partners in China, Japan and India. We empty the boxes, and our partners arrange for the items to be sorted into different categories to enable reuse and recycling.

65% of all collected garments and textiles

Wearable items that can be marketed as secondhand clothing are sorted into more than 200 categories to maximize the likelihood of each garment reaching an appropriate end customer.

2% of all collected garments and textiles.

Only a small percentage of collected items can be recycled into new textiles based on current technologies, but there is a lot of innovation happening in this area. We see great potential to increase this percentage in the future.

Approximately 10% of collected garments and textiles do not fit into any of the above categories and are disposed of, with energy recovery being prioritized when possible.