Chile's Atacama Desert has become a fast fashion dumping …
Mar 5, 2024 · Fast fashion goes to die in the world's largest fog desert. The scale is breathtaking. Clothing from many of the world’s favorite brands lies in discarded heaps in Chile’s Atacama Desert. How...
Chile’s Atacama Desert: Where Fast Fashion Goes to Die
Nov 15, 2021 · Deep in the Atacama Desert of Chile, new dunes are forming — not of sand, but of last year's unsold clothing from around the world. Piled high atop the previous year's fast fashion casualties and unpurchased lines of clothes, the garments are usually filled with toxins and dyes and do not biodegrade.
A Mountain of Used Clothes Appeared in Chile’s Desert. Then It …
Jan 13, 2024 · Men work at a factory that recycles used textiles discarded in the Atacama Desert for wooden isolation panels for the walls of social housing, in Alto Hospicio, Iquique, Chile, in 2021.
Chile’s desert dumping ground for fast fashion leftovers
Nov 8, 2021 · Chile’s Atacama, the driest desert in the world, is increasingly suffering from pollution caused by fast fashion. Used clothes discarded in the Atacama Desert, in Alto Hospicio, Iquique, Chile ...
Fast fashion goes to die in the world's largest fog desert. The …
Apr 6, 2024 · 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. By John Bartlett
Remember Chile's Infamous Clothing Dump? It's Growing - Refinery29
Apr 20, 2023 · Chile’s Atacama Desert is a junkyard for fast-fashion clothes. Since the story broke last year, little seems to have changed — except more people are vulnerable to devastating impacts.
The Atacama desert’s clothing dump: a fast fashion nightmare
Mar 20, 2024 · In the heart of the Atacama Desert lies a grim testament to the fast fashion industry’s unchecked excesses. The town of Alto Hospicio has become infamous for its sprawling used clothing landfill, a site that recently suffered a catastrophic fire, erasing mountains of …
How Fast Fashion Is Ruining Chile’s Atacama Desert - Fodors Travel Guide
Sep 21, 2023 · The enchanting Atacama, famous for its otherworldly beauty, has distressingly become an eerie monument to fast fashion’s unregulated wastefulness. How Did This Happen?
Explained: How Atacama Desert Became a Dumping Ground For …
May 24, 2024 · With Atacama Fashion Week, in April 2024, stylists, designers, and activists hoped to spread awareness and ultimately address and eliminate the larger issue of fast fashion. 1. What is...
How Chile’s Atacama Desert Became a Garment Graveyard
Apr 22, 2024 · Up to 39,000 tons of unwanted clothing gets dumped in the desert each year, and that number is only on the rise. There are two key reasons for the growing clothing landfill in Atacama. The first is the combination of fast fashion and an increase in the global population’s consumption habits.