What Accra throws away, and why it is mostly fine

Look at what leaves a household in Accra at the end of a month. Very little of it is broken.

There is a bed frame that no longer fits the room. A pushchair for a child who now walks. A second kettle from a wedding. A set of curtains for windows the family no longer has.

Working things, wrongly placed

The failure is not durability. It is matching. Something stops being needed in one house while still being needed a street away, and there is no mechanism connecting those two facts.

Why this matters more here

Landfill capacity around Accra is under real pressure, and the informal collection that handles much of the city's waste is not designed to rescue a working fridge. Once something is on the pile, it is gone.

Every item that changes hands directly is one that never reaches the pile — and one household that did not have to buy new.