https://mariannecaroline.com/tags/circular-innovation/Recent content in Circular Innovation on Marianne CarolineHugoen-usTue, 29 Sep 2026 11:34:10 +0000https://mariannecaroline.com/articles/soilless-cotton-hydroponic-farming-trial-turns-five-tonnes/Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:34:10 +0000https://mariannecaroline.com/articles/soilless-cotton-hydroponic-farming-trial-turns-five-tonnes/<h2 id="cotton-without-soil-a-growing-experiment-leaves-the-lab">Cotton Without Soil: A Growing Experiment Leaves the Lab</h2> <p>What if the shirt on your back began life not in a field of red earth, but floating in a shallow channel of moving water on a rooftop or in a repurposed car park? That question is no longer hypothetical. A collaboration between the Spanish hydroponic farming specialist Magtech and H&amp;M Group&rsquo;s Circular Innovation Lab has taken a meaningful step from theory towards production, with an initial five-tonne batch of soil-free cotton grown in Spain passing quality control and being spun into finished garments.</p>