On Korle-Gonno beach in Accra, Ghana’s bustling capital, reams of tangled clothing are burrowed into the sand.
“They go as deep as six feet,” says a local fisherman.
These mounds of material are the clothes the west has shrugged off and discarded – second-hand textiles supposedly sent to countries like Ghana and Nigeria for resale from Europe and the US. But the quality is so poor, it is alleged, most clothing ends up incinerated or dumped here on this beach, in an unofficial
landfill.
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