According to the survey, up to 70% of the retail and donated waste clothes in Britain are sent overseas. Before this, everyone will first carry out the external packaging of charity with the concept of sustainable development. In addition, Ghana is a booming area in the field of second-hand clothing. Here, second-hand clothes are sold and reused in the form of old stocks, and many clothes are imported and used to meet the market demand diligently.
Nearly half of the second-hand clothes shipped from Britain to Ghana are called unusable, and basically half of them are too poor to sell. At the same time, according to British news media, this kind of clothing has caused certain environmental pollution to exporting countries to some extent. Recently, a photo of the fishing community in Jamestown coastal area of Accra reflects the seriousness of this problem. The photo shows a man jumping over a pile of clothes stretching from the beach to the sea. Other photos at the scene show the objects in the water and determine the landing site and ocean.
This echoes the pictures found in the Atacama desert in Chile earlier this year, where there are still large areas of discarded clothes. This place is regarded by experts as the driest desert in the world, but now it has become a popular area for dumping discarded clothes from developed countries.
According to the report of the 20 19 British Parliament, on average, British consumers buy more clothes than any other region in Europe, five times more than the clothes bought by the same country in the 1980s. According to reports, about 300,000 tons of clothes are buried or burned in Britain every year.
The common disposal methods of old clothes are: giving away: giving away, saving a sum of clothing expenses for others, environmental protection and economy, killing two birds with one stone. Donation: Donate your useless old clothes to the Red Cross, various charitable organizations and other charities, and offer a love for those in need. Clothes recycling: sort out old clothes and send them to inappropriate clothes recycling places for reuse.
Reuse of home accessories: choose cotton, soft and digestible raw materials to make towels, cleaning towels, shoe polish, mops to scrub furniture, laminated glass and wooden floors. Clever production: make old clothes into plush dolls, small handbags, cushions, storage bags, storage boxes and so on. Sale: Higher-end fashion clothes can be sold, and the principal can be recovered to relieve the pressure on the wardrobe.