Hellen Kahaso Dena, who leads the Pan-African Plastics Project at Greenpeace Africa, recently urged Ghana to ban the import of unusable clothing and textile waste from the Global North.
To avoid the extra regulations associated with waste exports, textile waste is often misclassified or labelled as used clothes, when in it is actually unusable trash, she said.
To avoid the extra regulations associated with waste exports, textile waste is often misclassified or labelled as used clothes, when in it is actually unusable trash, she said.
