At the Kantamanto market in Ghana's capital Accra, clothes donated from all over the world are sold.
It is a widespread misconception that all donated clothes are donated to poor people.
Many charities charge a fee and when the clothes arrive here in Ghana, they are sold per kilo.
Bad quality
SVT is in place when the big bales of clothes arrive in the morning at Kantamanto market.
There is a lot of sex on the garments that can be resold.
- It was better quality before, but now a lot of the clothes are in poor condition.
We throw them away and burn them, says saleswoman Hannah Edu.
Behind the market, the fires are constantly burning.
These are the clothes that no one wants to buy.
Full dumps
Many of the clothes are sorted out even before they come to the market.
It's about so-called fast fashion - fashion garments that do not last for more than a couple of washes.
An estimated 40 percent end up in the landfill.
- Our dumps are full and it's almost just clothes.
It's a huge environmental problem, Jennifer Bampoe, president of the Clean Ocean Project.
End up in the sea
Everywhere in Accra's ditches and streams there are discarded clothes.
And when SVT visits a beach in Accra, drifts of clothes are in the sand.
- The clothes end up in the sea.
So it's not just an environmental problem that affects us here in Ghana, says Jennifer Bampoe.
Several African countries have wanted to ban the import of used clothing because it knocks out the domestic textile industry.
But here in Ghana, thousands of people live on the sale of second-hand clothes.
Drowning in bad clothes
An estimated 15 million garments come to Ghana every week.
This is a lot considering that the population is just over 30 million.
- We drown in bad clothes.
It is not the case that we want the West to stop donating.
But please, dump your stained and broken clothes on us, says Jennifer Bampoe.