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Kantamanto Market-- life and livelihood in the throws of fast fashion's waste streams.
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Sammy Oteng is a Kantamanto Market organizer in Accra Ghana. The market is a 28 acre site, historically created by the people of Ghana to repurpose and reuse materials. Since the onset of fast fashion, the marketplace has become a dumping ground for the waste of the Global North. In a country of 2 million, the marketplace is cycling orders of magnitude more individual garments than there are people. Beaches and open pits have become the homes for our overproduction.
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