Mountains of garments promised to be reused by brands like H&M are flooding the streets of Ghana

The unsalable clothes are then dumped in landfills that are overflowing However, more than 40 percent of the clothes are too poor in quality to wear The rest are sent to developing countries where they sifted through by locals The fast fashion industry churns out 100 billion garments are year, but only recycles one percent of them Parts of Africa are drowning in millions of used garments the fast fashion industry ships over each year - even though big names like H&M and Zara have made pledges to recycle the used clothing. H&M, a major offender in the industry, produces three billion garments a year alone and only recycles about 10 percent of them - the rest is shipped to places like Accra, the capital of Ghana, where there are heaps of used clothing flooding waterways. The fast fashion industry, which includes Zara that is less than 50 percent environmentally sustainable, churns out a total of 100 billion a year and recycles just one percent, Bloomberg reports. The streets of Ghana are being flooded with the secondhand garments H&M, a major offender in the industry, produces three billion garments a year alone and only recycles about 10 percent of them - the rest is shipped to places like Accra Dozens of African countries had hope the import of what Gahanna refers to as obroni wawu, or dead White people's clothes More than 100 billion garments are produced worldwide each year and 85 percent of them are either tossed into a landfill or incinerated.