The fast fashion graveyard in Chile's Atacama Desert - BBC News
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2022
- The second-hand clothing trade is a well-established business in Chile.
Traders import unwanted garments - mainly from Europe and the US - to resell locally and to other Latin American nations.
But more than half of the 60,000 tonnes of clothes imported each year ends up in illegal desert landfills, with dire consequences for the environment and the local community.
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Just another reason why I love op-shopping and wearing clothes until they develop holes. Fast fashion is toxic and destructive, in so many ways.
agreed!! It's not an industry built to last.. obviously.
And passing down clothes to others in your family if you grow out of them too!
Yes am also like you
Haha I literally have had the same clothes for over a decade already. Only time I throw them away is if there are multiple holes or big tears. I also wear my shoes until the sole is gone and starts hurting my foot. People think I’m weird, but whatever… I’m just going my part.
@@gabrielmartinez5961 that so great
The angers me on so many levels, and I've always known this was the case because I've actually witnessed the ragpickers on these dumps in various continents. Every person from gluttonous countries who insist on filling their closets with things they do not need and shopping at these clearance stores should be forced to clean up this mess. Think of the workers in countries such as Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam, Honduras etc etc etc working long hours to produce this unnecessary surplus only to have it flown all over the planet to end up in a dump like this. For those who say there is no easy answer I suggest there is an easy answer. Stop consuming so much cr@p you do not need. Sorry, rant over.
yeah, if only they were let to be developed and wasnt forced to your shit, lol Europes and USA's way to develop, selling opium to china, and forcing the world to use thre economik systems, and wars. and now they complain after having corrupt leaders in there countrys, because there not let to develop, you need there materials
@@namename-qb5xe I'm not entirely sure I'm going to trust what you say since you also claim that less than half of the people killed in the Holocaust were Jews.
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maybe get rid of capitalism because fast fashion is only one aspect of the waste driven by billionaire neoliberal lead capitalism.
Hey , calm down , sit down and breathe ok , online political warrior
This is when WANT far exceeds NEED. Why does it happen?
Greed.
Yes.
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capitalism
@@public.public consumerism. Capitalism isn't bad. People just don't know how to control themselves. Just buy what you really need.
*Call the factory owners to clean their mess, they're destroying the nature of the planet.* 💔
It will end one day anyway
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@@IBTU The words of someone who can't be bothered to do something about it and has accepted defeat before even putting up a fight. You folks are the reason issues go ignored.
@@CactusCowboyDan yeah like the average person can do anything. The only people that can add people with power you know that
@@IBTU that's what I say too. One day it'll all end. And it's ok too. Everything must end someday. There's no rule that says anything should last forever.
A lot of possible uses for those clothes.
1. Filling for packages and fragile things instead of Styrofoam.
2. Filling for large children's dolls.
3. Filling for mattresses, and if not comfortable for sleeping then at least for play mattresses that kids jump on them or fall mattresses in sports classes.
4. Reusable bags can be sewn from them, instead of plastic bags that are given to us in stores.
5. From small cloth sheets it is possible to sew work gloves.
6. In many clothes you can make small repairs and sell them as second-hand clothes.
Can make rag rugs from polyester clothes but it doesn't seem to be done in these countries. Then can resell the rugs.
Some places fluff up the material and make insulation for houses out of old stained clothes.
due to the extreme dryness of the desert, are the "landfill clothes" well-preserved enough that they can be reused in this way? or are the clothes too deteriorated and brittle/dryrotted to be reutilized?
@hobomike6935 the heat would make the plastics in the fibres brittle over time they will crumble to dust and mix with the deserts sand
Even degraded polyester has uses.
Anybody who thinks usable stuff, no matter how small or commonplace, is garbage needs to be sentenced to a 30 day exile from their 1st world country and be made to live amoung the average people in a 3rd world country.
This is a multi-billion dollar oppurtunity for the entrepreneur who creates a 99% accurate sortation bot.
Reclamation and refurbishment is the new secondhand store.
Never been a fan of fast fashion (or any fashion, to be honest) and throwaway culture we have (I’m in the UK and other areas). A lot of people here and some other places have this “If I can’t see it, it’s not there” attitude. Charity shops (and thrift stores) can only do so much. We need to reduce this waste now somehow.
Everyone has that attitude. It's what allowed pizzagate, Epstien and the hidden names in the ghislaine maxwell case.
I'm so poor, my so called fast fashion is what I keep for years, and I even mend it when it breaks.
I've never been one for fashion or clothes shopping. In fact, I haven't bought any new clothes in years apart from replacing socks.
This shows me that its more important then ever to not get drawn into the crazy fashion sense that people waste money and resources over.
Your clothes are just a shell around your body, nothing more.
@@ozymandes No what?
That is very true and wise, we need more people to realize this.
I grew up in the 40s and 50s. My generation is really in shock seeing these dumps. If we bought a dress, we wore that dress until it was outgrown, then it would be handed down to a sister or a cousin, by that time it was pretty thread bare, and the dress would be taken apart and rags would be made out of it. But then before the rags got too stained, grandma or an aunt would cut small squares of the fabric that wasn't too thread bare, and make quilts out of it. So ya..,,we reused and repurposed fabrics.. the prettiest skirt I ever owned was made from one of my mothers old dresses.
I had a lovely dress that my mum made for me using material from her wedding dress. Also a red coat, which she fashioned from a coat of hers.
I still remember it vividly to this day.
I loved making clothes for my own children too. Times have changed and really not for the better, in some instances.
Never in a million years did I believe I would ever utter that phrase 😊
Good for you. Your generation also fucked the economy and the younger generations. Well done for not buying loads of clothes though.
We can’t do that anymore. Companies intentionally create clothing from low quality synthetic fabric that is made to disintegrate at a much, much faster rate than clothes earlier generations wore. Why synthetic/man made material instead of natural? Because synthetic aka oil is cheaper than natural materials.
Problem is nowadays it costs waaaay more to buy the fabric/thread/pattern etc to make an item than to buy it ready made from the shop. So many fabric shops are closing down too so you have to also factor in travel costs to get to a fabric shop. Not to mention most people don’t have the time. 2 income houses are common. No more sahm
I can PROUDLY say that NONE of my clothes have ever ended up in a landfill.
Also, I buy 100% cotton clothes whenever possible.
You might think so but can you really be sure....
This is everyone's problem not just those who contributed to the mess.
@@PS_ItsMe agreed, sometimes it's ready to just say I'm not part of the problem but in reality, we all share this planet.
What about clothes that become threadbare?
@@tkatrich3 I wear my clothes until they are quite ragged and then I use them for rags and such until they basically disintegrate
People are outraged, why? What do you think stores do? In America, they toss everything that doesn't sell (which is a lot) into the trash compactor. Then it get picked up and taken to the dump. I think everyone should take a trip to their local trash dump, so they can see for themselves of what gets thrown away.
Need to build a recycle plant to turn it all into new clothes that people WANT, and not throw away.
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I saw in another video that this is happening in some countries now. Unfortunately I watched the video a few months ago, so I can't supply the link.
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No, production needs to be sustainable and on the level world needs. Video is aftermath of insane overproduction of short life clothes.
While well intended, this only band-aids the issue. Cheap clothing made from Polyester and designed to last one season max is the issue here.
We should be making clothing from hemp. It's cheap, easy to produce and manufacture and most importantly, it would biodegrade and go right back into the earth to feed microorganisms.
What the actual fudge!
That's horrific. Why is it being dumped there?
Bout time they ship it back to the entitled countries who are happy for this to exist.
There are no countries only people energy farms. So you've got a moot point. :D
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That's quite a nearsighted view but we are on the internet so...
When I see that, I see all the resources, work, time and pollution (which happens on so many different ways, while producing clothes). To see such a thing is painful. I really am going to use this video for my students in class... Hopefully, the ones are in fast fashion will think about their "lifestyle" the others, I hope, they won't fall into it!
It's all about profit.
10-20 years ago a t-shirt would last me 10-20 years, everything I buy now falls apart within 2 years!
But that's just the point....you're now paying the same for that new t-shirt that falls apart after 2 years as you were for one that lasts and the one that lasts is no good to the company selling it because they need that quick turn around profit or they'll go out of business...not defending business but that's the way they survive they don't give a cr.ap about where it end up its about the bottom line
@@jujitsuka6691 Yeah, planned obsolescence! It does disgust me, but not much a single person can do about it!
Greetings from Peru , for many generations the people of Peru and Chile have been rivals , why ? Our common enemy is big business , corporations and imperialist attitudes. Hope for the future that these two nations can find common ground and work together.
Yes all people and nations should work together for the common good of all Beings. Not only Peru and Chile.
No wonder Mother Nature is trying to rid herself of humans.
Reqd 52 chapters of Jeremiah stop giving the glory to mother nature that's not even real
moot point...transhumanism is an elitist ideal being propagated by unwitting mouthpiece. :D
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Amazing that none of it is donated to homeless shelters or women's shelters. What a waste.
Womans shelters? Those places get everything new while the real homeless go without entirely.
The problem with that is brands will NOT accept homeless wearing their brands and "tainting" it therefore better to ship it off to a third-world to sell or rot in a desert. 😑😑
As someone from Chile I must say that the authorities are to blame. Chile is not a corrupt banana republic. Of course big corporations are also to blame, but the Chilean government has enough agency to prevent this from happening.
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I have a best friend from Chile she or he looked to me like his or best friend and I appreciate everything she or he did for me ❤
A year ago after becoming aware of this problem I stopped buying new clothes, with the exception of socks , shoes and undergarments. No more trips to the mall. I buy everything in thrift shops. It is more fun. I have learned (thanks to you tube) to remove
certain stains of garments and how to hem or do simple repairs! So much more satisfying. Stores like Zara, forever 21, and H& M should be held responsable for these problems. Slave labor, fabrics that rip, fade or shrink because of the awful quality... bad bad bad!
They should net it all and create huge oil spill emergency kits, that can be lifted and dropped into huge oil spills as an absorbant, then from the used net sponges spills sell them to powerstations as fuel. Turn it into x3 profit.
This waste is our future energy and I strongly believe we can do it
Gives some perspective on the artificial scarsity/artificially inflated prices on this stuff when you realize sales have to make up for the 85% that doesn't sell and ends up in a landfill.
When there are so many people on Earth, especially refugees, who are struggling to be properly shod & clothed due circumstances beyond their control, the situation we're witnessing in this video is scandalous in addition to the pollution and environmental degradation.
The solution could be simple. Each individual stops consuming so much and go back to fewer things that are built to last..We need to change our views and perspectives!
Don't disagree but manufacturers will go out of business if they produce stuff that lasts....that's why they don't....
Thank - you .
This is sometimes the problem with people with lots of money (even the not so rich people) just dump everything they want to dump once they find it old, and not even checking if a clothing is still useful to other people or not. If it cannot be used by other people, I suggest to recycle or reuse a cloth in a creative way. Yeah lets admit many people don't have time for this or do not want to spend time thinking how to recycle.
*I blame those so called instagram influencers. people idolize Kylie and her sisters, I don't know what to say*
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Dude this has been a problem of the last century dont just blame internet celebrities.
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I love Chile 🇨🇱 from Somalia 🇸🇴
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does anyone know if I can use a clip of this video for my video would that be copyrighted? (sorry just making sure)
Good morning 😊😊
From Fiji island 🇫🇯
so sad :(((( im literally in tears and crying so hard.....waa waa
Were these really a result of fast fashion though? The interviewee said these couldn't be sold, probably indicating that these dumps were worn out clothing.
Very good information and chanal
The level of insanity is incomprehensible! How do you get to this point!
Buy 100% cotton or him stay away from the polyesters.
dam, i wonder why the video has no sound, my iphone 13 pro max 1tb connected to the bluetooth of my new mercedes c63 amg 2021
Nobody gives a shit
Disgusting. Needs to stop.
shut it...if they made stuff that lasted their capitalist/socialism dream would have ended sooner...and with it their control.
This is so sad. Much of it comes from the usa. Yet many of us wear old rags because we cannot afford the new clothes that are being thrown away. So sad...
I’m just thinking how I haven’t bought new clothes in almost 3 years. I just felt like the quality and style has been lacking and now seeing this makes it even worse. 🤢
Wow
Hello what is this video about and what is this four please.
D I S G U S T I N G !! BOYCOTT ALL FAST FASHION BRANDS
Hello I like this video it is good.
Hello I have done a thumbs up four this video.
Humanity, I think we might have a problem.
Used clothes is a booming industry in the Philippines.. some seller even sold this like buying brand new ones
In my country, a single pair of used panties can sell for hundreds of dollars. They're sitting on a gold mine!
😝 lol
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so many girls (famous and everyday) are sitting on a nest egg if they sold underwear and such. literally a massive market for it. $$$
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This pile of textile can easily replace Russian gas
Use hemp instead of polyester
Never shop at primark. They are rubbish and they rip easily.
Items that I used to buy in primark was rubbish, but now quality improved
It could be an great opportunity for them if they look on the brighter side, if they recycle it into finished goods
Hello what country is this video in and what launguige do they speek in.
Hello KG thank you four telling me the launguige.
Hello KG thank you four tellinge that.
Hi I'm chilean, the language is Spanish
Hello Josef thank you four telling me the launguige and four replying back to me also.
I don't understand why the Western countries have this trend of fast fashion. In South Asian countries like Bangladesh ( where I'm from ) we just have a good amount of clothes and we use it over and over again for like years until like it's about time to give it to some poor people or make it into cleaning rug
O mesmo aqui na América do Sul e América central.......
Os países extremamente consumistas ficam nessa histeria coletiva de comprar loucamente....
Em quase todo o mundo roupas são de uso diário e são caras, então é melhor usar até não servir mais
We have ruined earth 🌎 💔 😔
This is absolutely disgusting!!! These clothes could help many people around the world. But its resources are literally pilled up like garbage instead. Who makes this decision? Who sends these clothes to this country?
We the people of the world need to sort out shit out ! this is vile ! .. .
The solution is simple. Build an incinerator near the dump. And integrate a multi layered filtering system in the incinerators chimney to filter out all pollutants from the waste gas produced from burning the clothes.
Then you have a pile of used filters instead of clothes. And the filters took energy and resources to make, so the carbon cost has increased.
@@fubar12345 the filters can be washed and then the residue pumped into a permaculture swamp that can be created where the microorganisms can then naturally recycle the waste without any harm to the environment.
@@farceadentus good plan. When do you start?
Scandalous !
Why the unsell clotes are not given to people who can t buy... Like food... The problem with the fast fashion clotes is that they become less quality and after few washes they simply disintegrate... I have seen this in zara, mango who used to have long lasting fast fashion clotes
Oh my god
no elitist transhumanisms.
I DONT UNDERSTAND HOW IS CHILE GOVERNMENT allowing them to dump there
The women at work are always online shopping for the next new item they will wear once. Its like their addicted
One more reason to hate the kind of people that says "thats so last year" or whatever, i just dont get it, i use my clothes until they have holes and even sometimes i ask my mother if she can fix it (i cant sew for the life of me) this leave me with more money to spare on things i consider more important, like having dinner outside with my family, we have priorities wrong.
Do you have any Levi 501’s, 34/34?
Why not just give it to the homeless to wear? I’m sure they are more concerned about layers during the winter months than what is fashionable. And they’ll often wear it until there is nothing left anyway so that it doesn’t go to waste.
What the point of burning it ?
Qué importante es frenar eso, ese es un tipo de basura, ojalá nos mostraran también a dónde llega la basura de lo digital, cuánto contamina y cuanto degrada la tierra.
I am very glad to have some of my clothing that is nearing the level where they have holes or friends simply identify me from a distance with the familiar sign of my clothes that go way back. Seriously why does Chile import so much non-sense?!
to sell at the second hand market. it generates employment and stimulates economy, which can be significant in Latin America, Africa, South Asia.
our world is a capitalist dystopia, where common sense and humanity have no place before a predatory and destructive economic model.
Que pena!!!
Some can be recycled/refilled. India does it. Then makes product and resells.
Government that depends on other country's for everything can not come up with solutions. Why not be inventive, shred it & make something from it. No instead all they worry about is how to blame it on someone else. It could be made into something useful like insulation or compressed into blocks to build new housing.
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How many people are without good adequate clothing in this world? They would surely be better off to help those rather than just dumped in a desert
The quality of cheap fast clothes means they are not suitable for reuse.
Forums like you tube bring such problems to our attention. What happens to all the unsold clothes and the used and discarded clothes, sadly never crossed my mind before. There should be restrictions on how many items manufacturers can produce. The demand and supply needs to be regulated surely.
If only a way could be found to drop all this waste into active volcanos, which are ideal natural incinerators.
Wtf!!! That shocks me
Oh no why this way? Arn't there any solution ? .😪😪
Uganda, Chile facing the same problem and people can't stop consuming... And then, cry over the environmental changes... Honestly, I lost my faith in humanity! It's trying!
I'm a environmental engineer by the way 😪
Good
If so much is wasted why not just make less?
Thank you for this information, and I will reduce purchasing clothes to reduce harm to the environment
It's good that you want to help the environment. However, make sure to buy what is needed and reduce the unnecessary purchases only.
It's the younger generation that's to blame for this not us older people that have done it wjth their named fashion clothing they want.
Burying them in the desert is probably smarter. People are so quick to just set crap on fire.
Holy smokes!!
no elitist transhumanisms.
Bien por Chile, frio no pasan
Those clothes can be recycled into rugs, matressess some cover sheets with the right handling of these used clothes it can be turned into some 💰.RUclips has a lot of videos about recycled materials don't waste this and more importantly be responsible to our Environment 🙏
Es un horror! Quien es el /los responsables de ese desastre ecológico? los importadores deberían usar parte de sus ganancias para crear un jardín botánico, y un hospital. Deberían ser multados por su abuso contra esa comunidad y el país entero.
Can garbage be burned away ?
Chile is purchasing all of this stuff...why or for what I do not know but the only reason this dump is here is because the people who bought it(in Chile) discarded it..
Scary shit !
Buy quality clothes even though expensive and keep for decades not throwing away often. And fashion of those clothes has to be somewhat timeless. Ppl should stop buying stupid fashion.
If government not so protective that still worth some money in many region
But in the end of discussion its all about business progress
These clothes by removing the tag should go to poorer countries , so that they could buy at low cost .. instead of being deserted
Где же Грета Тунборг? С её заботой об окружающей среде?
Put a fricken ticket person up front and let people from around the world come and shop
And you wondered where the thrift shops get all their clothes. You should really tell your children.
I'm going to be sick 🤢🤢🤢
I wish the BBC would hire a narrator... I'd like to have time to look at the images in these videos. I spend most of my time reading...
Surely hemp clothing would be a better alternative to this
And donating it to poor people? That could also sort out some of the problem? In addition to what I have read in some of the comments
15%
Fun fact: “If your parachute 🪂 fails, you have the rest of your life to figure it out.”
Have a cookie to feel better 🍪
As always is cheaper and easier to just dump stuff for companies.
All these different companies should be held accountable for its destruction or invest in ways to try and recycle it.
Out of sight out of mind for now. But what in the future for our Children and Grandchildren? What will be the cost to the Planet in the long run. I strongly believe we are one of the last generations to actually enjoy this planet without to many hardships just trying to survive and having a comfortable living