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REDLANDS, CA - SEPTEMBER 9, 2024: The out-of-control Line fire burns in the San Bernardino National Forest above homes of Lugonia Avenue on September 9, 2024 in Redlands, California. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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Hollywood, CA - August 15: A homeless man waits for transportation to housing as Mayor Karen Bass' Inside Safe program employees along with the Los Angeles Sanitation Bureau clean up homeless encampments along Hollywood Blvd. and Gower Street on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024 in Hollywood, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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A man walks at a second hand clothes dump site at the Kantamanto Market in Accra, Ghana, on November 15, 2023. Kantamanto market is vast, spanning over 20 acres in the heart of Accra's business district, its stalls dominated by used clothing and shoes from the West and China. Its traders import a staggering 15 million garments a week, according to the OR Foundation environmental group. But roughly 40 percent of each bale ends up as waste, they say, dumped in landfills and often washed into the ocean, causing a public health crisis and harming the environment. Ghana became the world's largest importer of used clothing in 2021, according to the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) data site, with garments worth $214 million shipped mostly from China, the United Kingdom and Canada. (Photo by Nipah Dennis / AFP) (Photo by NIPAH DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

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Los Angeles, CA - August 28: Stop motion shoot in the office for fast fashion at Los Angeles Times building on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)

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