Related Keywords: cheap goods, damaging local textile manufacturers, disposable fashion, from UK, Ghana, greater quantity disposed, growing desire for fashion, manufactured in China and elsewhere, rise of fast fashion in Britain, second highest receiver, traded off for profit, used clothes, Western world
The Western world's growing desire for fast, disposable fashion, fueled by the ready supply of cheap goods manufactured in China and elsewhere, means people are consuming and then disposing of an ever greater quantity of garments. Ghana is the second highest receiver of used clothes from the United Kingdom (UK).
According to the United Nations Comtrade database, Ghana spent $65 million on importing used clothes from the UK, in 2013 which were donated to charity homes but ended up being bought by new owners as they were traded off for profit as per the BBC.
