just all this back definitely comes from germany watched on this desert. dumping grounds tells an ugly truth about fast fashion. with fema, we re producing more clothing and throwing it away, faster. a lucrative business for some people with it has economic benefits for people who work here and for investors go look in the street. south. america has become a dumping ground with it, but on what you throw away is what when when is bustling? why has the gun and production industry gone so badly? rome and who is paying the real price of fast fashion? al search for answers takes us to south america with we re in the attic, come a desert in northern sheila where some of the global fashion industries, discarded clothing ends up. locals are taking us to a dumpsite, past settlements of make shift hunts. we drive past piles of used, tie as then clothing, heaps and heaps of it a vast landfill site for textiles in the middle of the desert. the stench of chemical vapors hangs in the air.
chilean desert is a dumping ground for old clothes with cheap, easy to buy, worn, briefly or not at all. then thrown away this kind of consumption creates mountains of textile waste. but it s actively encouraged by the fast fashion industry. some producers boast up to $24.00 different collections per year. since 2000 global clothing production has doubled every year to an annual total of $100000000000.00 items. the fashion industry also emits more than $1200000000.00 tons of c o 2 per year. more than global air and ship travel combined, and yet 4300000 tons of cost of clothing, land in the trash, or even far away in the chile and deserts were in the utter. com, a desert in northern chile. this is where the global fashion industries, discarded clothing ends up. locals are taking us to the dumb site, past informal settlements, where mainly migrant workers live in makeshift huts without electricity. we drive past piles of used tires and then mountains of discarded cheap clothing