The world’s fast-fashion addiction is wrecking the planet with its unsold clothing. It’s also contributing to an enormous and growing pile of clothing that is sitting in Chile’s Atacama Desert. SkyFi, a company that provides access to satellite imagery, recently shared a striking view of the Atacama Desert.
The company explained in a that members of its Discord channel had helped find the coordinates for the growing graveyard of trashed garments. “By purchasing a $US44 Existing Image at 50 cm resolution, we can confirm the giant clothes pile in the desert of Chile exists and is growing,” SkyFi . The Atacama Desert is the driest place on the planet.
It’s about 1,600 kilometres-long and sits between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It doesn’t get a of rain in a typical year, and sometimes there is . Little delicate flowers grow in the dry landscape about once or twice a decade.
Conditions are so dry that Atacama has been used as a by the European Space Agency and NASA. Sadly, the desert is also a dumping ground for cheap, unsold . party dresses, sweaters, and more are all heaped in growing mounds.
The site contains an estimated 60,000 tons of clothes from Europe, Asia, and North America, the . The nearby port town of Iquique is one of in Chile, meaning there are no tariffs, taxes, or customs-related fees. This was meant to boost the local economy, but it’s been catastrophic for the local environment.
Clothing that is transported to the port city and is.
