The boom in quickly made, inexpensive clothing around the world has led to an environmental crisis in countries like Ghana. People in the US and the UK donate clothes they don’t want anymore, and those clothes end up for sale in a massive secondhand market in Accra. Reporter Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman walks us through that market to meet the many people who depend on it for their livelihoods, and to the ocean which is suffering damaging effects from all the excess clothing.
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