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What is going on with fast fashion?

The latest trends can now be bought quickly and cheaply - but what is the impact?

The way we buy clothes has massively changed over the past decade - it’s now cheaper and quicker to buy fashionable clothes with the growth of ‘fast fashion’.

So what is it? And is there more to it than making a quick purchase and staying on trend?

Hannah Gelbart is joined by Sophie Eastaugh, who’s covered the topic for the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s Climate Question.

Favour Nunoo, a ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Reporter in Ghana, gives us a glimpse into what happens to some of the clothes that get thrown away, and how they end up at Kantamanto market, in Accra.

Fair fashion campaigner and influencer Venetia La Manna gives her view on how shoppers should change their habits.

Plus ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Monitoring’s Samuel Murunga explains what’s behind the TikTok ban in Senegal.

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Presenter: Hannah Gelbart
Producers: Julia Ross Roy, Benita Barden & Emily Horler
Editors: Verity Wilde and Simon Peeks

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