How the UK's fast fashion habits are polluting Ghana
Standing knee deep in rotting clothes, there was no avoiding the gravity of the environmental consequences of our throw away culture.
Penny Marshall is Africa Correspondent for ITV News. She was previously Social Affairs Editor. Penny is renowned for her incisive journalism uncovering the Serb-run detention camps in Bosnia in 1992. Her reports alerted the world to the full horror of ethnic cleansing and won an array of awards including a BAFTA, a Royal Television Society Journalism Award and a prestigious Emmy for outstanding investigative journalism.
Standing knee deep in rotting clothes, there was no avoiding the gravity of the environmental consequences of our throw away culture.
Most of rural Zimbabwe is now without crops, without livestock and without water after its worst drought in four decades.
Parched lands and decreasing habitat has caused many of Africa's iconic species to die.