In a sprawling secondhand clothing market in Ghana’s capital, early morning shoppers jostle as they search through piles of garments, eager to pluck a bargain or a designer find from the stalls selling used apparel from the West. Ghana is one of Africa’s leading importers of used clothing, with millions of items arriving in bulk each week.
Cows are seen at the largest dumpsite where textile waste ends up at Old Fadama in Accra , Ghana , Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. People offload bales of Second-hand clothes from a truck at Kantamanto market, one of the world’s largest second-hand clothes markets in Accra , Ghana , Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024. A second-hand retailer sorts out clothes at Kantamanto, one of the world’s largest second-hand clothing markets, in Accra , Ghana , Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024.
Ghana is one of Africa’s leading importers of used clothing. It also ships some of what it gets from the United Kingdom, Canada,and elsewhere to other West African nations, the United States and the U.K., according to the Ghana Used Clothing Dealers Association. But neither Ghana’s fast-growing population of 34 million people nor its overtaxed infrastructure is equipped to absorb the amount of cast-off attire entering the country. Mounds of textile waste litter beaches across the capital, Accra, and the lagoon which serves as the main outlet through which the city’s major drainage channels empty into the Gulf of Guinea.
The ease of online shopping has sped up this waste cycle, according to Andrew Brooks, a King’s College London researcher and the author of “Clothing Poverty: The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-hand Clothes.”
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