Fast-Fashion Pollution

Several strategies may help reduce textile pollution, including renting your clothes, buying fashion that is responsibly manufactured and taking care to donate used clothing where it does the most good
   
The overabundance of cheap clothing driven by consumer demand has also affected the secondhand clothing industry in Kenya and Ghana, as reported by CBC and ABC News Australia; quality of the donated items is so bad that an estimated 40% of what arrives in Ghana goes straight to the landfill 

Although the capital of Ghana can process 2,000 metric tons of waste each day, the city produces nearly twice that; textile waste is estimated at nearly 6 million garments each week
   
Researchers are evaluating consumer interest in renting clothing in an effort to cut back on textile waste; manufacturers must also make changes to raise the quality of the clothing so it can hold up to being worn by multiple people

Read the full analysis by Dr. Mercola