Around 15 million used garments pour into Accra every week from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia, flooding the city’s sprawling clothing market. In Ghana, they call them “obroni wawu” — dead white man’s clothes. An estimated 85 per cent of all textiles go to the dump every year, according to the World Economic Forum, enough to fill Sydney Harbour annually. Globally, that’s the equivalent of one garbage truck of textiles being burned or going into landfill every second. The most common way that donation centers dispose of clothes is by selling them to thrift stores. However, some donation centers may send clothes directly to recycling facilities. Others may distribute clothes to people in need, either domestically or internationally, or send them to the landfills. So what can you do? Make sure you do your research to find out how organisations are handling your donations, and do not go only by what they have on their website. Also, look at the work that organisations like the OR Foundation are doing on the ground to tackle this problem. What do you think about "obroni wawu"?