The fashion of "Fast Fashion" causes 7% of the waste generated in Western countries to be clothing. This is due to the short life cycles of this type of clothing, being cheap clothing you already know the type of quality, not only because it is cheap but so that they can continue to release clothes and people buy them.
According to the BBC, a large part of this waste reaches Africa, with Ghana being the country that receives the most used garments per month. Containers of up to 60 million used garments arrive in Accra, the capital of Ghana, of which 40% are too broken and cannot be reused , so they end up in macro-dumps that can reach the size of entire cities.
This problem not only occurs in Ghana, but also in countries such as Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan or Burundi, which have established legislation to prevent the massive arrival of second-hand clothing.
So Ghana is the world's biggest clothing dump? The answer is NO, the largest clothing dump in the world is located in Chile, in the Atacama desert. In this desert, as in Ghana, there are mountains and mountains of clothing, either second-hand or in sizes that can no longer be sold in countries with more purchasing power.
Approximately 60% of the clothing that arrives in Inquique , a town near the Atacama desert, is residual and therefore ends up in the waste mountains of the desert.
These clothes that reach different parts of the world are not necessarily clothes that have been thrown away, on many occasions the clothes are donated, but they must be discarded because they are in poor condition.
