How 7.5 Million Pounds Of Donated Clothes End Up At A Market In Ghana Every Week | World Wide Waste

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How 7.5 Million Pounds Of Donated Clothes End Up At A Market In Ghana Every Week | World Wide Waste


Used clothing donations travel around the world to one of the largest secondhand clothing markets in Accra, Ghana. But with the rise of cheap so-called ‘fast fashion’, millions of used clothes are polluting nearby beaches and communities.

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@missnanika969
21 hours ago

I'm watching this while I sew my old clothes to hangbags

@alimasud4453
21 hours ago

I have stock mens ladies girls boys kids clothes item available from Dubai

@AbdirahmanIdris-ku9xm
21 hours ago

Donating clothes puts local clothes shops out of business. Donating clothes to shops so they can sell them at cheaper prices while still being able to make a profit and pay taxes is far more useful. Think about tomorrow not just today.

@westend273
21 hours ago

The unwanted used clothing, why can't they dig a trench place as Water-permeable filter fabric broken rock to move water? it's been on human skin it can't be too toxic; all water isn't the same. they can drain swamps where people wish to live

@rosalinaascencio7
21 hours ago

You can make a mattress out of the clothes you can’t sell.

@kevinkraft1458
21 hours ago

so its donation, hmmmm

@Shawn-8
21 hours ago

And as a white female try to buy a tiny scrappy little T-shirt for a 2-year-old female ..$5. NO LESS Clearly Used, In the scrap pile here

@MM-fl6vn
21 hours ago

The vast majority of this stuff is straight up garbage. These developing countries are paying for the privilege of accepting the world's trash. They need to stop this ASAP…let the rest of the world handle their own 💩.

@-Gunnarsson-
21 hours ago

A friend I know have used the same jacket for 25 years. It looks faded but who cares 😂

@mlissgay5054
21 hours ago

we have free boxes of used clothing and share freely❤ aloha from big island 🏝️

@rabit818
21 hours ago

My grandparents had one armoire that contains their clothes. They are a well to do, just practical.

@vvvv-h8m
21 hours ago

I will buy less but what happens to the items remaining in the stores that don't sell, do they still get shipped to Guana etc.. The manufacture needs to make less how to get them to do this?

@PaulinaFlorescarrillo
21 hours ago

Your earphones

@PaulinaFlorescarrillo
21 hours ago

Hard work

@PaulinaFlorescarrillo
21 hours ago

Oh si

@PaulinaFlorescarrillo
21 hours ago

Um poor comites in Arizona

@PaulinaFlorescarrillo
21 hours ago

No si then free

@PaulinaFlorescarrillo
21 hours ago

20$

@PaulinaFlorescarrillo
21 hours ago

USA auora

@PaulinaFlorescarrillo
21 hours ago

Si but cerfecat

@PaulinaFlorescarrillo
21 hours ago

Rebel

@PaulinaFlorescarrillo
21 hours ago

Black

@PaulinaFlorescarrillo
21 hours ago

Size of a laundry mat

@PaulinaFlorescarrillo
21 hours ago

Si

@PaulinaFlorescarrillo
21 hours ago

Shank

@PaulinaFlorescarrillo
21 hours ago

Me

@goatsandroses4258
21 hours ago

If the consumer did not demand fast, cheap fashion, producers would stop making it. Clothes weren't always like this. I remember when a person's business or "good" wardrobe was an investment. Classic styles in mostly-natural fibers used to last for years. I have a wool jacket of my grandmothers that I could still wear without most people being any the wiser. Now these cheap polyester and other synthetic things just don't last, and many are immodest to boot.

@HettesKvek
21 hours ago

I've been cycling through the same 15 shirts for the last five years, and they are still holding up.

Truth is, the average person buys more clothes than they need.

@whitneybarbie
21 hours ago

I bought 2 pink cotton shirts from amazon they faded after less than a year while my other t shirts made from polyester look like new they're 3 years old I paid twice the price was worth it

@johnjohnf.webber1820
21 hours ago

Ghana is a good place to invent a clothes recycling company that makes textiles from used clothes (or finished goods). I would suggest t-shirt 👕 and jeans 👖 and bed sheets or pillow cases. Socks and pet clothes might be good too…

@DrawThatFox-rq5sx
21 hours ago

Fashion brands are so charitable they dont just donate clothes to people, but to all marine creatures as well.

@SurprisedDivingBoard-vu9rz

Powder. Much easier to manage for land fill. Especially farming. Because burning is difficult and too much chemicals.

@christophebedard696
21 hours ago

Is it a real problem for the ecosystem or just ''devastating'' to see because it's ugly? They only talked about the impacts on people because of mosquitos and clogged drains…

@davechristian7543
21 hours ago

They more than likely would be best of going bush again like they were before the english came n changed the way they live for ever bc just look at them now living like animals.

@michaelbaah7162
21 hours ago

My PhD work is on second clothing industry in Ghana

@christagrothmann794
21 hours ago

make quilts ,

@kalasatwater2224
21 hours ago

Never donate to big companies, donate to an individual instead