Fast fashion has spawned a mountain of leftover clothes in the Chilean desert that's so massive it can now be seen clearly from spaceBy Matthew Loh
May 23, 2023
* A gigantic heap of unused clothes in Chile is so big that a satellite can easily spot it.
* High resolution images of the clothing dump was posted on May 10 by satellite photo app SkyFi.
* Much of the landfill contains clothes that couldn't sell in stores in the US, Europe, and Asia.
A giant dump of unused fast fashion clothing in Chile's Atacama Desert is now clearly visible to satellites.
The still-growing mountain of discarded or unworn clothes — manufactured in Bangladesh or China and sent to retail stores in the US, Europe, and Asia — are brought to Chile when they aren't sold, according to Agence France-Presse.
At least 39,000 tons of those clothes accumulate in landfills in the Atacama Desert, the outlet found in 2021.
On May 10, a high-resolution satellite photo of the discarded clothes was posted in a blog by SkyFi, the developers of a satellite photo and video app.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/fast-fashion-spawned-mountain-leftover-042331031.html