The Environmental Disaster that is Fuelled by Used Clothes and Fast Fashion ‘It’s like a death pit’: #Ghana became fast fashion’s dumping ground😱😭Ghana imports about 15m items of secondhand clothing each week, known locally as obroni wawu or “dead white man’s clothes”. 40% of clothing arrives in Tema port, Accra's commercial port, as textile waste‼️ Fast fashion relies on low-cost materials and quantity over quality, so synthetic, plastic- based materials such as polyester, acrylic and nylon a

The Environmental Disaster that is Fuelled by Used Clothes and Fast Fashion 😡 Of the 100 billion garments produced each year, 92 million tonnes end up in landfills. The EU is generating skyrocketing levels of textile waste- a total of 12.6 million tonnes a year. Where does all this end up? Fast fashion goes to die in the world's largest fog desert. The scale is breathtaking. Clothing from many of the world's favorite brands lies in discarded heaps in Chile's Atacama Desert.😡 And also Ghana is