The report The Socio-Economic Impact of Second-Hand Clothes in Africa and the EU27+ reveals ... supply and demand by efficiently channelling surplus clothing from the Global North to the Global ...

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Today that number is in the tens of thousands. Second-hand clothing is one factor in the near-collapse of the garment industry in sub-Saharan Africa. The West's cast-offs were so cheap that local ...

There has long been a global trade in second-hand clothes, handed in to charity shops in wealthy Western nations and then sold on to traders in Africa and elsewhere in the world. This is big business.

Show more “I look good and no-one else has it”. In Zimbabwe the trade in second hand clothing is booming. Sold in markets or just out of the back of cars or from homes, the clothes are popular ...

Business magnate Chris Kirubi is on record castigating the importation of second hand clothes in the country. He has on several occasions appealed to the Government to stop the imports.

OXFORD, England, Oct. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The report The Socio-Economic Impact of Second-Hand Clothes in Africa and the EU27+ reveals that the sector – a vital component of a future circular ...

(MENAFN- PR Newswire) Second-hand clothing (SHC) is stimulating billions of dollars in GDP contributions and supporting hundreds of thousands of green jobs across Europe and Africa, a new report ...

Second-hand clothing can help countries meet environmental targets and drive economic growth, but it needs support. A new report says governments need to help unleash the sector's economic potential.