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"Many clothing donations end up in an unexpected place — African landfills."

Good article and further detail about a phenomenon I often bring up in my talks.

expmag.com/2022/01/what-f…

"what happens to clothing after it’s donated is a deeply complicated, dizzyingly global story about the unseen consequences of fast fashion, the opacity of charity, and the effects on the people who end up on the receiving end of our well-meaning donations."

"Westerners now consume clothing at such a ferocious pace that our own secondhand shops cannot begin to absorb our discards. Today, although we donate only about 15% of our used clothing to charity, domestic thrift stores are still overwhelmed."

"They can only sell a sliver — about 10% to 20% — of what they receive. The rest is sold to textile recyclers, who turn the lowest-quality items into rags and insulation and press everything else into bales, which are sold to traders across Asia and Africa."

“We end up with the Western world’s trash,” says Sammy Oteng, project coordinator in Accra, Ghana, for the OR Foundation, a nonprofit that works on issues of justice and sustainability in the fast-fashion industry. “They are sending us whatever they do not want anymore.”

"The consequences for Ghana are dire. Each day, about 154,000 pounds of used clothing leaves Accra’s main garment market, Kantamanto, bound for a dump in Korle Lagoon. There, a 5-story mountain of waste towers above the inky black water, an estimated 60% of it clothing."

And if you’ve followed along, I think it’s good for everyone to understand what happens to items you return to a store:

”Perfectly good stuff gets thrown away in these facilities all the time; the financial math of doing anything else doesn’t work out.”

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

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Per Axbom Twitter

This video essay by @FoldableHuman will help you understand everything that’s wrong with cryptocurrencies and NFTs. It is long, over 2 hours, but well worth it. Some complex language but also great explanations. Split up your viewing. Stick with it.

youtube.com/watch

@FoldableHuman I can not stress enough how important I think it is that more people watch this and understand it.

@FoldableHuman In this video Dan goes through examples of almost all the elements in my Elements of Digital Ethics post. And then some. Will rewatch in a few days to try to make mindmap summary.

axbom.com/elements/

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Looking at @spotify @spotifydesign Ethics Assessment Worksheet. Imagining things to add to it.

Hopeful efforts. As is often the case adoption and follow-through need attention. And: when harm is evident, what is the expected action? Inside and out…

spotify.design/article/invest…

For posterity: the tweet references current events. The assessment worksheet itself I see as great work by a limited group of trailblazers in a large organization where employee values and shareholder interests frequently collide. See @ashleyrcarman: x.com/ashleyrcarman/…

For more clues we can look into current trends in finances as well.

"Diversifications into arenas like podcasting also remain speculative: just recently, Spotify shut down its pioneering podcast studio…"

digitalmusicnews.com/2022/01/25/spo…

There is a content policy at Spotify. As with most social platforms it is however unclear who it applies to.

businessinsider.com.au/pete-evans-spo…

”We have detailed content policies in place and we’ve removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID since the start of the pandemic. We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon.”

latimes.com/entertainment-…

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