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Fast Fashion Waste Is Choking Developing Countries With Mountains of Trash
Less than 1% of used clothing gets recycled into new garments, overwhelming countries like Ghana with discards.
07 Nov 2022, 08:59 AM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Tangled coils of waterlogged clothes roll like carcasses in the waves along the coast of Ghana, one of the world’s biggest importers of used clothing. The castoffs arriving by the bale are known here as , or dead White people’s clothes, a phrase in the local Twi language that seeks to assign a reason to the inexplicable flood of garments from overseas. Surely their owners wouldn’t choose to throw away so ...
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