International Day of Zero Waste: Chile's Atacama desert, a clothing graveyard • FRANCE 24 English

March 30 marks the International Day of Zero Waste. Between 2000 and 2015, global clothing production doubled. Europe and North America export some of their unsold and discarded clothes to Chile. In the north of the country, textile waste accumulates and often ends its life in the wild dumps of the Atacama desert. The situation is getting worse, despite increasing attention from the authorities. FRANCE 24's Juliette Chaignon and Guillaume Gosalbes report from the Iquique region, with Josh Vardey.
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[@zabar8835]

Перепроизводство ради прибыли, вместо госплана это суть капитализма его природа.

[@kenhunt5153]

Recycling of textiles is a deflection and distraction. It's there to give the buyer the impression they are doing no harm.
How much stuff can we buy and own in the industrial West? How many pairs of shoes or dresses? How much does it take to make us happy?
Do you own the stuff or does it own you?

[@fintamaria2429]

😢😢😢😢😢

[@XxTheAwokenOnexX]

Lmao at zero waste. Goodluck with that!