Increased production of fast fashion is overwhelming Ghana's markets, piling up in landfills, clogging water systems, and polluting the ocean.

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A devastating blaze has wiped out the world’s largest secondhand clothing hub located in Ghana. Having no insurance, thousands of traders now face an uncertain future. The post Traders in Ghana ...

Ghana is the third-largest importer of second-hand clothing in the world and its market for used garments is so strong that traders of new lines struggle to compete.

Ghana receives around 15 million items of used clothing each week from Western countries and China, offloaded in bulk, often at negligible prices and questionable quality.

Once these clothes become microplastics they are absorbed into the aquatic food web, bioaccumulation accounting for them eventually ending up being consumed by people in Ghana and elsewhere.

But, Elisha Ofori Bamfo, a fashion designer in Ghana thinks he's come up with a solution that might just help. He makes clothes from the waste he finds on the streets.

An estimated 20 million people are thought to earn their livelihoods in the global waste industry by collecting, disposing, repairing or repurposing a wide range of materials and products. However ...

Heaps of discarded clothing from the U.K. have been dumped in protected wetlands in Ghana, an investigation found.

NEWBURYPORT, Mass.-- (BUSINESS WIRE)--Clothes for Hope, Inc., a non-profit organization founded by seventeen year old Lauren Sundstrom to benefit local communities, as well as children in Ghana ...

When a fashion student from Keta Senior High Technical School stunned the internet with a self-made dress likened to a MET ...