H &M is giving circular buttons a whole new meaning.

Waste pickers in India sell plastic waste recovered from the streets of Bengaluru to Hasiru Dala Innovations, (HDI) a social enterprise. HDI supplies button manufacturers with the fair trade guaranteed plastic waste; the manufacturers then turn it into buttons with 40% recycled plastic that the H&M Group’s apparel makers buy and attach to clothing sold worldwide.

Over 150 million of the round fasteners have already been sewn onto clothing sold by H&M.  The circular buttons are traceable down to the source of the waste along with names of the workers, their salaries and working conditions at HDI’s aggregation center.

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