The Atacama desert in Chile is home to a mountain of discarded clothing which grows by around 39,000 tons per year as the pollution from the industry of fast fashion continues to pile up.

Around 59,000 tons of clothing arrive annually at Chile’s Iquique port, which is typically made in China or Bangladesh and passes through Europe, Asia or the U.S. before making landfall in Chile.

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 ...

The clothes, discarded from retail stores in the US, Europe, and Asia, have accumulated for years near Chile's Iquique ... Fast fashion has spawned a mountain of leftover clothes in the Chilean ...

But the mountain of clothes depicted by that 2021 drone photo is utterly gone. As Astudillo, Pino, and the three students witnessed, ... Iquique, Chile, on September 26, 2021.

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 ...

Chile's unique Atacama desert sullied by world's junk Iquique (Chile) (AFP) – It may be one of the driest places on Earth -- a brutal, alien landscape where life seems impossible. Issued on: 25 ...