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Chile’s Atacama Desert: Where Fast Fashion Goes to Die - EcoWatch

www.ecowatch.com Chile’s Atacama Desert: Where Fast Fashion Goes to Die - EcoWatch

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...

Chile’s Atacama Desert: Where Fast Fashion Goes to Die - EcoWatch
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Chile’s Atacama Desert: Where Fast Fashion Goes to Die - EcoWatch

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  • I've always heard about clothing donations to Africa. Couldn't the same organizations take clothes that the article says that get there yearly and send those too?

    Edit: I don't know how I ended up commenting in a post from a month ago.