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  1. "Many clothing donations end up in an unexpected place — African landfills." Good article and further detail about a phenomenon I often bring up in my talks. expmag.com/2022/01/what-fast-fashion-costs-the-world/
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      "what happens to clothing after it’s donated is a deeply complicated, dizzyingly global story about the unseen consequences of fast fashion, the opacity of charity, and the effects on the people who end up on the receiving end of our well-meaning donations."
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        "Westerners now consume clothing at such a ferocious pace that our own secondhand shops cannot begin to absorb our discards. Today, although we donate only about 15% of our used clothing to charity, domestic thrift stores are still overwhelmed."
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          "They can only sell a sliver — about 10% to 20% — of what they receive. The rest is sold to textile recyclers, who turn the lowest-quality items into rags and insulation and press everything else into bales, which are sold to traders across Asia and Africa."
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            “We end up with the Western world’s trash,” says Sammy Oteng, project coordinator in Accra, Ghana, for the OR Foundation, a nonprofit that works on issues of justice and sustainability in the fast-fashion industry. “They are sending us whatever they do not want anymore.”
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              "The consequences for Ghana are dire. Each day, about 154,000 pounds of used clothing leaves Accra’s main garment market, Kantamanto, bound for a dump in Korle Lagoon. There, a 5-story mountain of waste towers above the inky black water, an estimated 60% of it clothing."
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                And if you’ve followed along, I think it’s good for everyone to understand what happens to items you return to a store: ”Perfectly good stuff gets thrown away in these facilities all the time; the financial math of doing anything else doesn’t work out.” theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/free-returns-online-shopping/620169/
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