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Comment by JamesLeonis

You both are being downvoted because this is the Garbage Trade. You want to dump your garbage, you pay the disposal fee. If there is something unfair about this deal, we can dump this garbage on our own domestic soil. Unfortunately domestic disposal fees are much higher than these African sites.

Why is there so much clothing garbage? Fast Fashion. Fun fact: 90% of the clothing donations go to these African dumps [0]. As such this will continue until Africa bans clothes disposal entirely just like China banned electronic waste, or the West regulates Fast Fashion.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6R_WTDdx7I

parent JamesLeonis 3 years ago

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