10 апр. 2023 г. · Three-fifths of all clothing is estimated to end up in landfills or incinerators within a year of production—that can translate to a truckload ...

8 нояб. 2021 г. · Chile's Atacama, the driest desert in the world, is increasingly suffering from pollution caused by fast fashion.

9 мая 2024 г. · Some of these clothes are resold in secondhand markets, but at least 39,000 tonnes ends up being illegally dumped in the Atacama desert.

13 янв. 2024 г. · The mound of discarded fabric in the middle of the Atacama weighed an estimated 11,000 to 59,000 tons, equivalent to one or two times the ...

20 апр. 2023 г. · More than half of the clothes that are imported to Chile annually end up in the Atacama Desert, the BBC reported in 2022.

4 июн. 2024 г. · From 2000 to 2004, clothing production doubled and three-fifths of this clothing was estimated to end up in landfills. These imports often ...

22 июн. 2023 г. · The clothing can't be sent to municipal landfills because it is not biodegradable and contains chemical products, Franklin Zepeda, the founder ...

22 апр. 2024 г. · 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 ...

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More than 66,000 tons of clothes reside at the massive landfill which is now visible from Space thanks to high-resolution satellite images.