Fast fashion, it is easily accessible, cheap and on-trend, but at what cost?
We all need clothes but we need to be careful of what we do with the clothes we no longer use. If you throw away your clothes, then you contribute to pollution.
Beautiful as it is, fashion is one of the biggest contributors to climate change. In a study conducted by “Business Insider”, fashion production comprises 10% of total global carbon emissions.
“The Guardian” posted an article highlighting the dangers of fashion and its consequences. River Volta in Ghana is a victim of fast fashion as it is clogged due to clothes that are discarded.
Ghana is the biggest importer of clothing. They have a thing called “obroni wawu” or “dead white man’s clothes”, more like thrifting, where locals buy donated clothes in bales from the UK, US and China.
In the bales, they don’t know what’s inside so they pick clothes that can still be wearable to sell at the market and then discard the rest, and that’s how rivers get clogged.
One of the vendors interviewed by “The Guardian” said she once received a bale of jeans full of blood stains and had to throw everything away.
