Textile waste landfill

BBC Earth tells you all about about where your returned goods end up and what can be done to combat this unnecessary and damaging waste.

Tucked behind sand dunes throughout Chile’s Atacama Desert, heaps of branded jackets and hiking shoes that never found a second life were some of the most striking images that made their way around the world about a year ago. The “world’s dumpster,” as some international outlets came to call the estimated 741 deserted acres of clothing junkyards, had quietly taken shape in the planet’s most arid desert. The hundreds of acres of amassed trash — countless articles of clothing, both torn and…

60,000 tons of used clothes decorate the Atacama Desert in Chile, becoming the backyard scenery in the north part of the country. Mountains and mountains

You may think you’re keeping old outfits out of the landfill when you donate them, but that’s not necessarily true.

Congratulations you have just finished buying the latest dress and are now up to date on the newest trend; however, two weeks later that dress you just bought

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