A Mountain of Used Clothes Appeared in Chile’s Desert. Then It Went Up in Flames
During the decades between Silva’s girlhood and today, clothing production worldwide doubled, while utilization—the number of times an item of clothing is worn before it is thrown away—declined by 36 percent. Countries like Chile, Haiti, and Uganda became depositories for fast fashion discards. In 2021 alone, Chile imported more than 700,000 tons of new and used clothing—the weight equivalent of 70 Eiffel Towers.
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