Every day, we discharge more and more clothes, transforming our closet into a poison to humans and the environment. According to the report “Fast Fashion Slow Poison: The Toxic Textile Crisis in Ghana”, published by Greenpeace Africa last September, “half a million items of clothing waste from Kantamanto Market end up in open spaces” every week. Hence based on the knowledge that the average wardrobe contains 174 items of clothing, one could conclude that approximately 2870 people throw their whole wardrobes into the open spaces of Ghana every week.
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