Chile is the biggest importer of secondhand clothing in South America, and between 2020 and 2021 it was the fastest-growing importer of used clothing in the world. The port of Iquique is an ...

The huge garment pile is growing by about 39,000 tons a year. A mountain of discarded clothes in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile has reached such huge proportions that it can be seen from space.

Piles of clothes dumped in the desert in the La Pampa sector of Alto Hospicio can be seen on Nov. 11, 2022. AFP via Getty Images What a waste. A satellite image taken above Chile’s Atacama ...

Clothing from many of the world’s favorite brands lies in discarded heaps in Chile’s Atacama Desert. How it got there tells the story of modern fast fashion. Francisco Ángel, a hospital ...

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 ...

“We have many places like this in the desert,” said Jean Karla Zambrana, a co-founder of the desert dressed in clothes, a ...

A mountain of discarded clothes in Chile has become so large it can be seen from space. The red-rocked desert of Chile's Atacama plateau has become a dumping ground for the West's used and faulty ...

Chile has long served as a hub for secondhand and unsold clothing—often manufactured in China or Bangladesh—that is imported into the country from Europe, Asia or the United States before ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - A Texas-based satellite imagery company recently confirmed that huge piles of unsold, discarded clothing in Chile’s Atacama Desert can be seen from space. Satellite images ...

But it is now a dumping ground for unworn clothes that couldn’t be sold. open image in gallery Chile’s Atacama Desert has become a dumping ground for unworn clothes that couldn’t be sold ...