Dead White Man's Clothes/ Obroni Wawu

 STORY BY; Joyce Aopare 




The environmental distaster fueled by used clothes and fast fashion is insane.

While the trade in used clothes has created Thousands of jobs it is also turning parts of Ghana into toxic landfill 

The tentacles are creating an environmental catastrophe of unthinkable proportions. Alleys full of unusable clothing are swept up and bundled into sacks.

Textile waste dump at Old Fadama; Accra is an eye saw, nothing to write home about.

"This place is serving as a dumping ground for textile waste in the name of second _hand clothing, the world's unwanted fashion" _stated the caretaker of the landfill. Close to 40% of whatever shipment is coming on a daily basis ends us to be complete chaff of no value.

A truck is filled to over with roughly 6 million garments every week that leave Kantamanto market as waste ,a huge portion of all that clothing is trucked two hours North Accra and ends up being dump as landfill.

The pressure from the used clothing industry is relentless. The city of Accra now has to find somewhere to dispose off more that 160 tonnes of textile waste every single day.

People burn the unwanted clothes including the synthetic (synthetic textiles can take hundreds of years to decompose)which affects the beaches, marine life and fishermen.

Clothes can be deconstructed into dolls ,rags and the likes.

The fashion industry contributes so much to environmental decline. 

When fierce rains come, the unwanted clothing washes into the city's open sewers and choke it's waterways and then it gets into the ocean. The layers of the textile waste that are stockpiling at the ocean bed is what chokes the aquatic life in there.

The tentacles are dug into the ground. 

According to some men at Borla beach in Accra you can dig like 15 feet and still find the tangles of clothing.

Liz Ricketts has spend the past decade documenting the impact of clothing waste on Ghana. According to her it becomes very dangerous for people when they are swimming because they're rolling back and forth and the tangles will hit them and also hit the fishermen's boat and wraps around their motors.

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