Import tariffs and enforcing regulations are expensive. That might not be intuitive but while Ghanaian companies are being payed to handle the waste, they're go

Import tariffs and enforcing regulations are expensive. That might not be intuitive but while Ghanaian companies are being payed to handle the waste, they're going to do everything they can to smuggle it in. More expense means less money to process waste properly. Countering all that is expensive. It's vastly cheaper for the government to ask other governments to stop exporting clothing waste to Ghanaian waste processing companies. Literally a phone call or three. As soon as they're not funding this, or they're only funding approved waste processing, the problem vanishes.