The price of fast fashion? Chile’s desert dumping ground for unwanted clothes

Name: The price of fast fashion? Chile’s desert dumping ground for unwanted clothes
Uploaded: 2021-11-08T18:47:39+00:00
Description: In Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the driest and most inhospitable places on earth, lie vast mountains of discarded clothes, ranging from unwanted Christmas jumpers to abandoned ski boots. They are just some of the thousands of tonnes of cheap clothing imported into the country every year that, unable to be sold, end up simply being dumped.

Issued on: 08/11/2021 - 22:07

Piles of diicarded clothes in the Atacama Desert near Iquique, northern Chile. © AFP / FRANCE 24

Video by: Sam BALL

In Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the driest and most inhospitable places on earth, lie vast mountains of discarded clothes, ranging from unwanted Christmas jumpers to abandoned ski boots. They are just some of the thousands of tonnes of cheap clothing imported into the country every year that, unable to be sold, end up simply being dumped.