"Sa mạc quần áo" Atacama ở Chile

sa mạc cằn cỗi nhất thế giới, với hơn 39.000 tấn quần áo không bán được bị đem bỏ tại đây mỗi năm, và không biết đến khi nào mới có thể phân hủy được hết 😭
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A mountain of discarded (bỏ đi) clothing including Christmas jumpers and ski boots cuts a strange sight in Chile’s Atacama, the driest desert in the world, which is increasingly suffering from pollution created by fast fashion.


The social impact (tác động xã hội) of rampant (lan tràn, cực kỳ phát triển) consumerism (chủ nghĩa tiêu thụ) in the clothing industry – such as child labour (lao động trẻ em) in factories or low wages – is well-known, but the disastrous effect (hiệu ứng thảm họa) on the environment  (môi trường) is less publicised.

Chile has long been a hub of second-hand and unsold clothing, made in China or Bangladesh and passing through Europe, Asia or the United States before arriving in Chile, where it is resold around Latin America.

Some 59,000 tonnes of clothing arrive each year at the Iquique port in the Alto Hospicio free zone in northern Chile.

Clothing merchants from the capital Santiago, 1800km to the south, buy some, while much is smuggled out to other Latin American countries.

But at least 39,000 tonnes that cannot be sold end up in rubbish dumps in the desert.

“This clothing arrives from all over the world,” Alex Carreno, a former employee in the port’s import area, told AFP.

“What is not sold to Santiago nor sent to other countries stays in the free zone” as no one pays the necessary tariffs to take it away.

“The problem is that the clothing is not biodegradable and has chemical products, so it is not accepted in the municipal landfills,”

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