Discardscapes of Fashion: Postcolonial Resistance in Post-Consumer Transboundary Textile Waste Management, From the U.S. to South and East Africa

The clothing and textile industry is often referred to as one of the largest polluters in the world. Over the last two decades, global annual consumption has increased, and the volume of discarded clothing in America has doubled from 7 to 14 million tons a year (Shirvanimoghaddam, 2020). Over 60% of textile waste overall is exported to the Global South.