A woman who deals in okrika was overjoyed after finding foreign currency in her bale of clothes. She enquired about the rate if converted to naira.

A woman who deals in mtumba was overjoyed after finding euros foreign currency, in her bale of clothes. She enquired about the rate if converted to naira.

When clearing out your closet and packing clothes in bags to donate, you assume they’re going to help someone in the community. Instead, the clothes will most likely end up abroad in a landfill.

Merchants at the end of this chain often work in markets like Kantamanto. They purchase used clothing by the bale, without knowing what’s inside, in hopes of selling it for profit.

Bales of clothing at Whitehouse & Schapiro are ready to be shipped around the world for resale. (Chris Bentley/Here & Now) ...

You drop off unwanted clothes at a thrift store. What happens next? GQ’s Oliver Franklin-Wallis traces the surprising global odyssey.

UMass Lowell students are working to combat the considerable environmental and social costs of the “fast fashion” industry. Gloria Donkor worked in the secondhand clothing industry in Accra, Ghana, ...

As more and more bales of ropa americana, or secondhand clothes, arrived in Iquique, the clothes flooded importers’ warehouses and overflowed vendors’ stalls in open air markets, including La ...

Bobby Kolade is a 32-year-old Ugandan designer who’s turning the world’s exploitative secondhand clothing industry on its head, one beautiful garment at a time.

A new factory operated by Renewcell, a textile recycling company in Sweden, is the first step in turning old clothes into new, high-quality fashion.

They purchase used clothing by the bale, without knowing what’s inside, in hopes of selling it for profit. MacCarthy says these bales are usually mislabeled and filled with items in terrible ...