{"id":53333,"date":"2022-04-22T12:41:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T10:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=53333"},"modified":"2024-12-16T19:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T18:03:33","slug":"how-fast-fashion-is-using-global-south-as-dumping-ground-for-textile-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/53333\/how-fast-fashion-is-using-global-south-as-dumping-ground-for-textile-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"How Fast Fashion is using the Global South as a dumping ground for textile waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What’s going on?<\/h3>\n\n

Fast fashion brands are promoting circularity, but reality shows that this is still a myth. Nowhere is the failure of the fast fashion linear business model<\/a> more visible than in the countries where many of these cheap clothes end up once their short lives are over: on huge dump sites, burnt on open fires, along riverbeds and washed out into the sea, with severe consequences for people and the planet<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n

I went on a research trip to Kenya and Tanzania to witness the problem of imported textile waste in these countries. You can read the findings in the new \u201cPoisoned Gifts\u201d briefing released by Greenpeace Germany<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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Dandora dumpsite, Kenya. Due to increasing overproduction from Fast Fashion brands, massive amounts of textiles and shoes end up on dumpsites, rivers or being burnt on open fires. \u00a9 Kevin McElvaney \/ Greenpeace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Why it matters<\/h3>\n\n

When people donate their used clothes to a charity, bring them to a take-back box at a brand\u2019s store, or to a municipal recycling station, they might assume that they will be sold for a good cause at a charity thrift store, or will be recycled into new clothes.<\/p>\n\n

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Fast fashion is destroying the planet.

The volumes of clothes being made and consumed continue to increase.

Sharing, repairing and second-hand must become the new normal.

\ud83d\udcf9 Nairobi, Kenya – @kevinmcelvaney<\/a>#DetoxMyFashion<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/oseoYnIJ02<\/a><\/p>— Greenpeace International (@Greenpeace) April 15, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>