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Viola Wohlgemuth

SecondHand / Ground Truth

25 April 2022

 4 minutes
Greenpeace visits places of textile production, distribution, markets and waste disposals. Used and new clothes are sent to Kenya from Europe and China to be sold as so called "Mitumba" but often they end up as landfill and waste disposal due to the huge amount. Here: Textile and plastic waste at Dandora dump site in Nairobi. Marabow storks around.

Africa-unbound: 40% of 'pre-loved' clothing is actually textile waste

A new Greenpeace report finds that the Global North has found a backdoor to get rid of its textile waste and is forcing countries from the Global South to deal with the consequences of fast fashion, even though they have no infrastructure to do so.

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  • Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie

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Toxic Fashion / Nonylphenol Usage Report
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