Your new shirt looks good and it’s a bargain. You wear it a couple of times. You wash it a couple of times. The color starts to fade. The seams come apart. You throw it away. Fast fashion is cheap.

In 2021, Ghana imported $214 million of used clothing, the most in the world, and it remains among the top destinations for discarded fast fashion today. In Accra, Ghana’s sprawling capital, ...

Fast fashion and sustainability: We often hear these two terms grouped together, with the former being to blame for hindering the latter. Most of us fundamentally know there’s a price to pay for super ...

Kenya and other African nations are being overwhelmed by imported textile waste. Synthetic textiles are largely made up of plastic fibers and can contain toxins ranging from PFAS to phthalates. They ...