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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Liam James

Mountains of clothes washed up on Ghana beach show cost of fast fashion

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Huge piles of discarded clothes line a beach in Accra, capital of Ghana.

The rags started life thousands of miles from the Gulf of Guinea and their coming to rest on this West African coast reflects the shortcomings of a huge global trade buoyed by fast fashion.

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