Garment Collecting at H&M | H&M

With your help, we've gathered over 172,000 tonnes of pre-loved clothing and textiles since 2013. Through collecting, sorting, reselling, repurposing and recycling, we can give many of these items a second life.

In 2023, H&M Group and REMONDIS (a global leader in waste management) launched an independent company called Looper Textile Co. to participate more directly in sorting unwanted garments and textiles and facilitating reuse and recycling. Looper Textile Co. provide local municipalities and retailers with solutions to extend the useful life of these items.

1. Bring your clean, previously loved clothing or textiles to one of our stores — they can be from any brand.

2. Place garments and/or textiles in the dedicated garment collection box.

3. After the garments and/or textiles are dropped off, we take over with REMONDIS (as well as Looper Textile Co. in Europe and 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.

Garments that are in suitable condition for resale are made available to secondhand customers globally.

Garments and textiles can also be evaluated to be recycled into other products, such as cleaning cloths or insulation material.