The Hidden Cost of Fast Fashion

The Environmental Cost Of Fast Fashion by Muntaka Chasant

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/dec/02/environmental-photographer-of-the-year-2022-in-pictures?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1Environmental photographer of the year 2022 – in pictures

Thousands of discarded fast fashion waste washed up on the coast of Jamestown in Accra, Ghana, July 2022. Discarded unwanted fast fashion clothes (imported as secondhand garments mainly from industrialised countries) regularly wash up to choke fish landing beaches in the Ghanaian capital. The vast bulk of the cheap trend-driven mass-produced clothes arrive in the country as waste and are therefore unsellable. Landfilled, they decompose and emit methane gas, worsening the climate crisis.