Africa Daily - Why is Ghana ‘swimming in trash’?
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We regularly hear about plastic pollution – but what about textile waste?
An activist is swimming the length of Ghana's longest river – all 450 kilometres of it - to highlight the issue of unchecked second hand clothing imports and its impact on water pollution.
Ghana imports a staggering 15 million pieces of unwanted clothing every WEEK - more than any other African country.
The clothes are donated or recycled by people from the west, but 40% of the items actually end up in landfill. Many are then washed into rivers.
PRESENTER: @kasujja
GUESTS: Yvette Tetteh and Solomon Noi.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd May 2023.
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