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Should Fashion Pay for Its ‘Waste Colonialism’?
Every single week, around 15 million things of outdated garments are shipped to Ghana, undesirable discards largely from the wardrobes of North American, Chinese and European consumers. The outfits are sold by the bale, significantly of it to shops at Accra’s Kantamanto sector, a person of the largest secondhand clothing markets in the environment. It’s a thriving hub for resale, mend and upcycling. But when the quantity of aged apparel despatched from worldwide markets retains rising, its quality is getting worse. Today, roughly 40 percent of everything that passes by Kantamanto is worthless trash that’s sent straight to landfill, plunging area shops who just cannot recoup what they compensated for…