emmanuel ajaab: take this bale from australia. linton: they're the charity shop castoffs from the western world. emmanuel: dirty. linton: it's sweat. emmanuel: see. yeah, rubbish. it's like a insult. linton: too many of them arrive in unwearable condition. while the trade in used clothes has created thousands of jobs, it's also turning parts of ghana into a toxic landfill. solomon noi: this place is serving as a dumping ground for textile waste in the name of second-hand clothing. linton: the world's unwanted fashion ends its journey here. liz ricketts: we call them tentacles. when they first wash up on sea, they're very long. linton: it's creating an environmental catastrophe of unthinkable proportions. [cock crowing] linton: in accra, the working day begins long before dawn. ♪♪♪ linton: as thousands of ghanaians make their daily migration into the center of this west african capital. from old fadama, accra's biggest slum, aisha iddrisu and her 18-month-old son sharif join the throng working in the second-hand clothes trade. ♪♪♪ l

emmanuel ajaab: take this bale from australia. charity shop castoffs from the western world. emmanuel: dirty. linton: it's sweat. emmanuel: see. yeah, rubbish. it's like a insult. linton: too many of them arrive in unwearable condition. while the trade in used clothes has created thousands of jobs,

emmanuel ajaab: take this bale from australia. y're the charity shop castoffs from the western world. emmanuel: dirty. linton: it's sweat. emmanuel: see. yeah, rubbish. it's like a insult. linton: too many of them arrive in unwearable condition. while the trade in used clothes has created thousands of jobs,