Hi, I'm the clothes that you donated.
Before your time of how I got from here to here, it happens a lot more than you think.
So I know you probably donated your clothes thinking that they were going to be like recycled or something nice.
Perhaps end up here to be resold.
However, did you know that the charity shops only sell around 20% of what they're given?
So when the charity shop doesn't want me, I'm gonna be put into these giant bales with a lot of other clothes.
And we're gonna be packaged for export.
Yeah, we're going on a trip intercontinental.
Plus, likely we're going to end up in Ghana.
As Ghana is the world's largest importer of secondhand clothing and textiles.
Around 15 million of me and my friends are imported each week.
They all come from similar places, so like the United States, Europe, China.
So here I am up here on the guy's head.
Basically, I'm being traded and people will pay around $120 to $200 for just a bale of me.
So whoever buys me will sell and upcycle me, hopefully.
However, the quality of me is getting worse and worse.
Like I'm so bad.
Like it's really a shame.
People will send me and I have blood stains on me.
However, they bought me and they can't take me back.
So they have to deal with the money they lost.
And you know, the quality of fast fashion isn't getting any better, so deal with it.
My quality is decent enough to kind of be resold.
I'll end up in this Kantamonto market.
However, about 40% of what comes here will leave as waste.
It's not a big deal.
It's only like 100 tons per day of clothing and textile.
Leave the market daily as waste.
I mean the cows seem to love it.
They like to stand on me and try and eat me.
Around 30% of that 100 tons per day is collected by the city.
However, the most of it, the most of us, me and my guys, we're gonna be dumped illegally.
Like into ditches or drains, whatever works.
Sometimes there's like a fire and we can release like toxic fumes and stuff.
But it's fine because there's only like 80,000 people around this area living.
Many of people that have already migrated due to climate effects and like their houses are in between clothes and rubbish.
They can move.
I'm just on vacation.
And the best part is that sometimes I get to see the sea.
Yeah, like I'm just like right here.
It's like five-star.
And the fishermen love it because when they come back from fishing, they find like more clothes in their nets rather than fish.
So it's like they went shopping.
However, some people call this lagoon like a death pit and they can't go swimming or use this water anymore.
But the clothes, we are enjoying it.
Look at us on the beach, having the time of our life, building sandcastles and stuff.
So yeah, I just want to thank Shein and Zara and all the other fast fashion stores for sponsoring this amazing trip of mine.
Thanks.
