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Ghana has become fast fashion's dumping ground

Norbert Hahn
October 25, 2023

Ghana is drowning in fast fashion waste. More than 70 tons of discarded textiles from the West show up in its landfills every day. DW visited an initiative in Accra striving to find solutions to the problem.

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