{"id":21363,"date":"2022-01-19T18:02:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2022\/01\/19\/ghana-faces-scourge-of-textile-pollution\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T18:02:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:02:30","slug":"ghana-faces-scourge-of-textile-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2022\/01\/19\/ghana-faces-scourge-of-textile-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana faces scourge of textile pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In Ghana, second-hand clothes once worn by Westerners are polluting\u00a0ecosystems and causing\u00a0significant public health problems. Every day, 160 tonnes of clothes arrive in the country: garments\u00a0that were donated to charities in Europe\u00a0or the US and are sent to Africa by recycling companies. An entire economy is based on the reselling of these old clothes, but few are in a fit state to be sold on. In\u00a0the capital Accra, these unsellable garments\u00a0form a huge textile mountain on the edge of the Atlantic. Residents regularly burn it, exposing locals to harmful fumes. Our France 2 colleagues report, with FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Camille Nedelec.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ghana, second-hand clothes once worn by Westerners are polluting\u00a0ecosystems and causing\u00a0significant public health problems. Every day, 160 tonnes of clothes arrive in the country: garments\u00a0that were donated to charities in Europe\u00a0or the US and are sent to Africa by recycling companies. An entire economy is based on the reselling of these old clothes, but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-21363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}