Why is Ghana ‘swimming in trash’?

We regularly hear about plastic pollution – but what about textile waste? An activist is swimming the length of Ghana's longest river – all 450 kilometres of it - to highlight the issue of unchecked second hand clothing imports and its impact on water pollution. Ghana imports a staggering 15 million pieces of unwanted clothing every WEEK - more than any other African country.

The clothes are donated or recycled by people from the west, but 40% of the items actually end up in landfill. Many are then washed into rivers.

PRESENTER: @kasujja GUESTS: Yvette Tetteh and Solomon Noi.