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Episode: Upcycling dumped clothes in Kenya may help save the planet
Description: Homegrown businesses in Africa are developing a new industry to tackle the environmental damage created by fast fashion.
Upcycling, where poor-quality, discarded clothes are made into desirable products, is becoming more widespread in countries like Kenya, supported by the social enterprise group Africa Collect Textiles.
Here workers are earning an income and forging a sustainable industry. African countries like Kenya often bear the brunt of fast fashion waste. The group Clean Up Kenya says the country imports around 200,000 tons of used textiles each year.
Africa Collect Textiles (ACT), which operates in Nigeria as well as Kenya, says the problem is...