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The Fast Fashion Free campaign hopes to persuade consumers to switch to rental subscriptions with the platform, lowering their environmental impact in relation to renewing their wardrobe. Trucks offload bales of textiles — referred to as Obroni Wawu, or “Dead White Man’s Clothes” — on the market, which is a seven-acre maze of over 5,000 stalls. The bales are bought by market traders — who have no idea forward of time what’s in them — for between 25 and 500 dollars every They then clean, tailor, and re-dye what they will of the clothes to provide it new life. Many Americans donate their used clothes to charities when they’re finished with it, under the assumption that will probably be reused. But with the increasing amount of items being discarded, and the poorer quality of fast fashion, much less and less can be resold, and tens of millions of garments are …