A new report has revealed Ireland is among the top 10 countries exporting fashion waste into Kenya.
According to the ‘Trashion’ report by Cleanup Kenya, an advocate group for sustainable public sanitation, and Wildlight for the Changing Markets Foundation (CMF), 150 million items of clothing are sent abroad from the EU, with the intent of being donated or recycled, but one third end up being dumped in rivers and landfills.
Today’s fashion industry has become synonymous with overconsumption, a snowballing waste crisis, widespread pollution and the exploitation of workers in global supply chains.
