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Our discarded clothing continues to clog waterways, char the skies with toxic smoke and ruin places where other people live, including Chile and Ghana. The fast fashion mountain of shame is real ...
The enormous pile of clothing, which contains discarded items from all over the world, is in the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth.
Not all the clothing goes to waste: some of the poorest people from this region of 300,000 inhabitants pick through the dumps to find things they need or can sell in their local neighbourhood.
Every year, more than 60,000 tonnes of clothes are shipped to northern Chile from Europe, the US and Asia. Whether they're ...
Around 39,000 tons of fast fashion was dumped in Chile’s Atacama Desert last year, according to a report. H&M and Adidas were among the brands with the most clothes left in vast mounds across ...
Clothing from many of the world’s favorite brands lies in discarded heaps in Chile’s Atacama Desert. How it got there tells the story of modern fast fashion.
Shocking images show mountain of unworn fast fashion visible from space. Chile’s Atacama Desert has become a dumping ground for unworn clothes that couldn’t be sold ...
The world’s fast-fashion addiction is wrecking the planet. It’s also contributing to an enormous and growing pile of clothing that is sitting in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
Some 39,000 tons of discarded clothing have amassed in Chile’s Atacama desert. That’s equivalent to the weight of nearly 27,000 compact cars in scrapped fabric. Agence France-Presse reported ...