Aoife McNamara on landfill in Africa: So many toxins — when we blew our noses you could see the black

What a Difference a Day Makes: Fashion designer Aoife McNamara tells Helen O’Callaghan about visiting Dandora Landfill in Kenya, one of the largest in the world, about the shock she felt – and how the experience has reinforced her drive to design with nature in mind.

Fashion designer Aoife McNamara tells Helen O’Callaghan about visiting Dandora Landfill in Kenya

I knew it would be heart-breaking, visiting Dandora Landfill in Africa earlier this month, but nothing could have prepared me. 

To see it first-hand – you walk in and straightaway you’re looking at mountains of rubbish, 40 acres of rubbish, just the vastness of it, so you can barely see the end, it’s quite startling.