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00:04 In recent years, the global clothing industry has been in a fast-paced trend.
00:08 Clothes that are popular in the season are sold to consumers at a low price.
00:13 But as soon as the trend passes, these clothes will all be sold off.
00:17 In this fast-paced market, in order to maintain a low price,
00:21 manufacturers often sacrifice the quality of clothes.
00:24 In order to solve these stagnant outdated clothes,
00:28 European and American countries will export half of the clothes to Asia and Africa,
00:32 and the third world country.
00:33 Kenya is one of the largest second-hand clothing importers in Africa.
00:38 Although these second-hand clothes once brought a business opportunity to Kenya,
00:42 however, data shows that
00:44 in 2021, of the 900 million old clothes sent to Kenya,
00:48 one-third of the clothes were thrown away or burned
00:53 because of the poor quality of plastic or plastic.
00:56 It became a waste of pollution.
01:00 In the blink of an eye, the pile of garbage is in front of you.
01:03 Several women are looking for second-hand clothes in the garbage dumps.
01:08 This is the garbage dump of Nairobi, Kenya.
01:11 As a third world country, Kenya receives excess production and unsold clothes
01:15 from European and American countries every year,
01:18 and then sells them to the local second-hand clothing market to sell.
01:22 Although second-hand clothes bring business opportunities,
01:24 but the merchants who sell second-hand clothes in the market are greedy.
01:27 These clothes are too poor quality, and they can only be discarded.
01:31 The clothes are not in good quality,
01:33 and they are not in good quality.
01:35 So we throw away a lot of them and sell them.
01:39 With a large number of second-hand clothes that have been taken to Kenya,
01:42 a large number of broken old clothes are also piled up on the riverbed of Nairobi River.
01:46 The local environmental organization warns that
01:48 the European and American countries have donated their second-hand clothes to them
01:52 and this will have a major impact on the environment in Kenya.
01:55 These clothes have a lot of effect on the environment.
01:58 They pollute the soils.
02:00 Remember, many of them are made from polyester, which is essentially plastic.
02:03 As we know, plastic takes a long time, many years to degrade,
02:07 and so they pollute our water sources.
02:11 To solve a series of problems caused by second-hand clothes,
02:14 the Kenya Environmental Organization also calls on the European and American advanced countries
02:17 to filter and sort before exporting second-hand clothes,
02:21 so that more than half of second-hand clothes can only become toxic waste
02:26 and not only harm the environment, but also affect the health of the people of Kenya.
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