Deep in the Atacama Desert of Chile, new dunes are forming — not of sand, but of last year's unsold clothing from around the world. Piled high atop the previous year's fast fashion casualties and unpurchased lines of clothes, the garments are usually filled with toxins and dyes and do not biodegrade. The result: a fast fashion faux-pas....
  • @bakachu@sh.itjust.works
    5•9 months ago

    This is just so awful. There are other sites for these textile dumps as well, like Ghana.

    I’ve tried shifting away from fast fashion by getting into second-hand markets, but even then I don’t think that’s enough.