Images of landfills overflowing with articles of clothing – dubbed “fossil fashion” – in Nairobi, Kenya, surfaced Thursday.
, are touted for affordable, trendy pieces but are also reportedly racking up waste due to their customers, who may take the throwaway nature of the items a little too literally.overflowing with articles of clothing – dubbed “fossil fashion” — surfaced Thursday, reportedly from Nairobi, Kenya.from the EU last year — a case taken on by Clean Up Kenya and the Changing Markets Foundation — claimed that there are millions of items dumped into Kenyan landfills.
The report from Clean Up Kenya and the Changing Markets Foundation discovered the millions of clothing items allegedly tossed into landfills.“Despite restrictions on plastic waste export around the world, an overwhelming volume of used clothing shipped to Kenya is waste synthetic clothing, a toxic influx which is creating devastating consequences for the environment and communities,” the report claimed.
Investigators estimated that 300 million items of “damaged or unsellable clothing” made of synthetic materials end up in Kenya’s landfill or are burned – which only aggregates the environmental crisis. It also claimed that people working in the clothing export industry have seen a significant uptick in retail waste in the past few years, “reflecting the increase of cheap, disposable fast fashion.”in value in 2021 and is only expected to soar.
The report claimed that the clothing is “creating devastating consequences for the environment and communities.”The fashion industry alone is worth billions – and is known for being harmful to the planet.
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