Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis 

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How fast fashion flooded the world and the innovators trying to change it.

As fast fashion takes over clothing sales, what happens to the well-intentioned donations to charity shops? Written by Oliver Franklin-Wallis. Read by Russ Bain.

'Fast fashion' is everywhere. From shops to charity shops to landfills thousands of miles from where they started, the unintended damage of well-intentioned donations is literally flooding parts of Ghana. 

Oliver Franklin-Wallis traces the journey of a humble T-shirt and meets the stylish Ghanian innovators trying to change how the system works and look great while doing it.

Read by Russ Bain
Abridged by Robin Brooks
Produced by Naomi Walmsley

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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A headfirst dive into the murky world of recycling.

Book of the Week. Oliver Franklin-Wallis has not written a book about rubbish, but about the far bigger concerns around how much waste humans are producing and what we do with it.

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