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Many clothing garments are sent to many different markets in Africa through shipping containers filled with unwanted clothing by the global north. Many businesses purchase these clothes since they are cheap to import and will sell at a usually higher price. Clothes are of varying quality and will for sell for less than a dollar. However, most of the clothes that are not sold are either thrown out to landfills, burned or repurposed. (Business Insider, 2022)

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How 7.5 Million Pounds Of Donated Clothes End Up At A Market In Ghana Every Week | World Wide Waste

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Mountains of dumped clothes pile up in Chile's Atacama Desert | DW News

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An estimated 59,000 tonnes of clothing is imprted to Chile each year to be dumped onto its empty desert land. These garments are mostly imported from China and Bangledesh where it then sold out to other Latin American countries. (Aljazeera, 2021)

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Sweatshops in India are a common oursourcing labour tactic used my many fast fashion brands 

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Sweatshops are a globalist phenomenon and are defined as unethical busniesses that give labourers low wages and unhygenic work environments in order to maximise profits and meet company goals. Sweatshops are often located in third world countries where governments are not regulating work environments as to increase foreign investment and trade relations. There are also many sweatshops in countries like China, bangladesh, and even african countries. (Nguyen, 2022)

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H&M is a clothing store brand that sells fast fashion clothing according to trends, seasons and styles. 

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H&M, ZARA, UNIQLO, Urban planet and many other fast fashion industries are known for their low quality products that seem to follow trends like streetwear, athletic wear etc. These companies hvae their products made quickly and cheaply by outsourcing their labour to other countries, often developing countries. (Orwig, 2022)

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Image depicting an african wearing a t-shirt with inappropriate language 

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People in third world countries care less about what the t-shirt says and more about the quality of it. From this picture you can see that the t-shirt is of good quality but is it obvoiusly not to be seen anywhere in the western world due to its obscure text. (Johnson, 2019)

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Donation bins located in Winnipeg, Canada

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Donation bins are often overlooked as a way to repurpose clothing. They are also a very profitable business as they continue selling clothes to thrift stores in return for profit. There are few laws regulating the installment and maintenance of donation bins. Rather, just fees to install them in place. (Jay, 2018)

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A second-hand clothing charity that gives part of its donations to countries abroad

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The Salvation Army is an example of a second hand charity thrift store that recieves clothes from first hand consumers that do not want their products anymore. everything that is unsold is either repurposed or given to developing countries. However, what happens after these clothes are sent to developing countries is a mystery. (SalvationArmy.ca, 2013)

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1960-2018 Data on Textiles in MSW by Weight (in thousands of U.S. tons)

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In 2018, 11300 tonnes of clothing were sent to a landfill which is more than 65% of total textile generation (EPA, 2022)

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If you think fast fashion is bad, check out SHEIN

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Shein, a company in China that uses fast fashion to deliver its products

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Unwanted clothing outsourced and bundled up in Madagascar.

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Clothing that is unwanted to us is sold in countries where english may not be their native language. Since it is a surplus world market product, many local textile producers cannot compete with the price of these goods, putting them out of business.(Johnson, 2019)