Rejected petition Tougher UK regulation of the international trading in second-hand clothing
We require that both charity organisations and the UK government take action by providing tougher regulations for second-hand textiles which are leaving the UK, and more specifically work alongside Accra, Ghana to “clean up” the damage taking place from textile waste.
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The UK is the second biggest exporter of used textiles. Without regulations for donations, charity shops end up with items that are hard to sell, and 35% of the world’s second-hand clothing trade go straight to the African continent. 17 million items from the West circulate weekly in the Kantamanto market in Ghana, with 50% being discarded.
https://comtrade.un.org/data/
https://wrap.org.uk/sites/default/files/2021-03/WRAP-textiles-market-situation-report-2019.pdf
https://www.therevival.earth/
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