How I learned that our kindly clothing donations could be doing more harm than good by Martin ‘Beanz’ Warde

In a new show on RTÉ the presenter looks at how Ireland’s cast-offs are contributing to an environmental hazard in Africa

Martin Warde saw where our cast-offs were being sold –and destined for the dump

Martin Warde

Let’s just start this off with a little disclaimer. I am not the world’s foremost thinker when it comes to the topic of climate change, the environment, or the green policies that are being dished out by our political betters. I am no bearded ­version of Greta Thunberg, and I couldn’t tell you to change your life for the sake of the planet. I will, however, tell you about a little journey I took recently.

For some reason, the higher-ups at RTÉ decided to give me my own TV series, The End of the World With Beanz, and then the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (now called the Coimisiún na Meán) decided to fund it under a climate-action programming scheme. I know, how woke of them.