Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Ghana: fast fashion's dumping ground | Unreported World" video.

  1. the fact that the clothes being thrown away there are not yet being burned for energy is a huge government failure. it's ideal trash for burning, and it would produce massive ecological benefits compared to leaving clothes to rot, and health benefits compared to people burning the clothes in the open with no exhaust filter. keeping the beaches free of trash could also increase the area's attractiveness to tourists. generally a lot of poor countries clearly should be building trash-fired power plants to reduce their waste problems. that would probably also be a good investment for some kind of foreign development aid or loans.
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  2. more specifically, why does ghana apparently not have trash-fired power plants?
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  3. it's quite disappointing that you completely failed to address this obvious solution in this report and instead only showed those two guys repurposing tiny amounts of clothes, and asked the politician about an import ban. those have very little to do with practically solving the trash problem in ghana. they need to actually deal with the trash, and the most practical way to do that at scale is to burn it for energy. I'm sure they'll also find plenty of other trash to burn once they have a power plant for it. in much of the EU, we've stopped putting any household trash in landfills, because practically anything not worth recycling can be burned.
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  4. AM Kgaka yeah I looked it up, that e-waste dump is in a place called agbogbloshie that's in ghana's capital accraö. so either a different section of the same dump, or a different dump in the same city as what's shown in the vifeo. either way the ghanaian government is very fond of importing trash and then not evrn bothering to have trash-fired power plants (which this video should have presented as the primary solution). with the e-waste, they presumably cause more poisoning, whereas the clothes on the beaches are massively detrimental to the potential for tourism, so overall just really bad governing. in my opinion they could handle the clothes if they tried properly and built some power plants, but they probably should massively reduce the amount of e-waste they import because that's really not easy to dispose of properly. it would be nice if they still imported wome select stuff though since there are people actually repairing and recycling electronics there.
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  5. where's that hellish place where they import tons and tons of electronic waste and then burnit to retrieve scrap metal? either ghana or nigeria, I think
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  6. insulation?
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  7. ghana doesn't need hordes of people repurposing trash, ghana needs its government to get off its ass and build trash-fired power plants!
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  8.  @karolinakuc4783  uuuh yeah of course you can't rely on billionaire charity, since when is that supposed to be the answer to anything?
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