Ghana's Battle Against 'Waste Colonialism'


On Jamestown Beach, Joey Ayesu's team's morning route is no walk in the park. At the far end of this working-class district in Accra, Ghana's capital, you have to slalom between fishermen's boats, polystyrene trays, plastic bottles and – above all – mountains of shoes, pants and tattered tee shirts, which in places, create dunes where pigs linger.  

Source: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2023/05/23/in-ghana-the-battle-against-waste-colonialism-in-the-wake-of-fast-fashion_6027668_114.html

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