{"id":1780,"date":"2021-12-15T04:01:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T04:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2021-12-15T04:01:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T04:01:59","slug":"the-ripple-effects-of-fast-fashion-15-million-used-garments-pour-into-accra-every-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=1780","title":{"rendered":"The ripple effects of fast fashion: 15 million used garments pour into Accra every week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/1899\/6c296bf9bb3448fabbf376b7175323c5.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration. Photo by Getty Images.\" height=\"483\" width=\"724\" class=\"img-lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n                    Illustration. Photo by Getty Images.\n                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The negative effects of fast fashion on developing countries are increasing. Clothing &#8216;donated&#8217; to countries by charity organisations is creating an environmental crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Batches of clothing sourced from charity collections are dumped in landfills, while others are resold or reused. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n            Subscribe to News24 for just R75 per month to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism.<br \/>\nYou can cancel any time.\n        <\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/w24\/Style\/Fashion\/Trends\/the-ripple-effects-of-fast-fashion-15-million-used-garments-pour-into-accra-every-week-20211215-4\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration. Photo by Getty Images. The negative effects of fast fashion on developing countries are increasing. Clothing &#8216;donated&#8217; to countries by charity organisations is creating an environmental crisis.\u00a0 Batches of clothing sourced from charity collections are dumped in landfills, while others are resold or reused. Subscribe to News24 for just R75 per month to read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[45],"tags":[1764,570,27,1761,1762,545,1763,265,339],"class_list":["post-1780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ripple","tag-accra","tag-effects","tag-fashion","tag-fast","tag-garments","tag-million","tag-pour","tag-ripple","tag-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6c296bf9bb3448fabbf376b7175323c5.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}