Author: Rédaction Africanews
Kenya is being swamped with waste clothing from other continents, a report by the Changing Markets Foundation claims. The report, based on findings by the Kenyan environmentalist groups Wildlight and Clean Up Kenya, says that "an overwhelming volume of used-clothing shipped to Kenya is waste synthetic clothing". While the exporting of plastic waste is restricted under the Basel Convention, a voluntary agreement called the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, a third of the old clothes shipped to Kenya is reported to contain plastic.