Betterman Simidi Musasia, founder and patron of Kenyan nonprofit Clean Up Kenya Organization poses for a photo while holding the report dubbed 'Trashion, the stealth export of waste plastic clothes to Kenya' that detailed how second hand clothes from European countries are turning out to be garbage after its launch. An investigation by Kenyan nonprofit environmental group Clean-Up Kenya and Wild light for the Changing Markets Foundation found that European countries are dumping 37 million items of unusable plastic clothing in Kenya every year. The investigation found that more than one in thr
Betterman Simidi Musasia, founder and patron of Kenyan nonprofit Clean Up Kenya Organization poses for a photo while holding the report dubbed 'Trashion, the stealth export of waste plastic clothes to Kenya' that detailed how second hand clothes from European countries are turning out to be garbage after its launch. An investigation by Kenyan nonprofit environmental group Clean-Up Kenya and Wild light for the Changing Markets Foundation found that European countries are dumping 37 million items of unusable plastic clothing in Kenya every year. The investigation found that more than one in three pieces of used clothing shipped to Kenya are of substandard quality and immediately the bails are opened, they become waste.
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