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It takes Nii Armah and his crew of 30 fishermen hours to haul their weighty nets to shore on the bustling Korle-Gonno beach of Ghana's capital Accra. "Our nets are lost to the clothing from the markets," Armah told AFP. "And the fish are slipping away. our sustenance" with them.
Traders at Kantamanto market in Ghana import a staggering 15 million garments a week, but roughly 40 percent of each bale ends up as waste, the OR Foundation environmental group says.
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