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Over 30,000 people trade in used clothing at Kantamanto market, Accra, Ghana.

How the West’s obsession with fast fashion compounds an environmental nightmare in Ghana

Environment

As the West continues to mass produce cheap clothes, a lot of it ends up barely worn, donated or in a landfill. In Ghana, the deluge of worn-out fashions has overwhelmed the West African country’s infrastructure and poses huge environmental threats to its coastlines.

This is a patched work coat, or noragi, that likely never began as a full garment, but was rather made from multiple, very small patches — some of them the size of a postage stamp — that were all sewn together to create an area of cloth, and then layered.

Some Japanese will pay $4,500 for an old Missouri prisoner uniform. Me, I collect Japanese ‘boro’

Arts, Culture & Media

French Government Strikes Down 200-Year-Old Pants Ban for Women

Conflict & Justice

Water Footprinting

The World

Blue Jeans, Blue Water

Water Footprinting

Everything we consume has a water footprint ? the amount of water consumed in its manufacture. Now businesses are beginning to add up the risks and rewards of watching their water use.

Water Footprinting

Everything we consume has a water footprint; now businesses are beginning to add up the risks and rewards of watching their water use.

The World

Blue Jeans, Blue Water

Using chemicals to fade jeans in Mexican factories is giving environmentalists the blues.

The World

The top cotton producers

Global Politics

The high price of cotton figures in today’s Geo Quiz. So, we’re wondering where the world’s supply of cotton comes from. We’d like you to name the top three cotton producing nations. Together, they account for more than 65 million bales of the soft stuff

The World

Water footprinting

Environment

Just how much water goes into making the jeans you’re wearing? It’s called a ‘water footprint’ and as global water supplies dwindle, some are trying to raise awareness about the water cost of our daily consumption.