Fashion waste pollution

The environmental cost of fast fashion. These images, taken by photographer @martinbernetti_photojournalist, show at least 39,000 tons of clothes dumped in Chile's Atacama Desert. The items are largely waste from the fast fashion industry. "These textile scraps come from all over the world and the problem is that the clothes are not biodegradable and contain chemicals, so they are not accepted in municipal landfills." According to the World Economic Forum, the fashion industry produces 10%…

Photographer Muntaka Chasant has documented thousands of washed-up clothes on a beach in Africa, laying bare the environmental impact of fast fashion.

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You may think you’re keeping old outfits out of the landfill when you donate them, but that’s not necessarily true.

As the West continues to mass produce cheap clothes, a lot of it ends up barely worn, donated or in a landfill. In Ghana, the deluge of worn-out fashions has overwhelmed the West African country's infrastructure and poses huge environmental threats to its coastlines.

Fashion industry is one in every of the highest polluting industries within the world. Sustainable fashion may be solotion in this case.

BBC Earth tells you all about about where your returned goods end up and what can be done to combat this unnecessary and damaging waste.

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Congratulations you have just finished buying the latest dress and are now up to date on the newest trend; however, two weeks later that dress you just bought

Photographer Muntaka Chasant has documented thousands of washed-up clothes on a beach in Africa, laying bare the environmental impact of fast fashion.

Tucked behind sand dunes throughout Chile’s Atacama Desert, heaps of branded jackets and hiking shoes that never found a second life were some of the most striking images that made their way around the world about a year ago. The “world’s dumpster,” as some international outlets came to call the estimated 741 deserted acres of clothing junkyards, had quietly taken shape in the planet’s most arid desert. The hundreds of acres of amassed trash — countless articles of clothing, both torn and…

More retailers are collecting used clothing to resell, repair or recycle. But they’re also collecting and distributing more waste to countries who say the secondhand trade market is untenable.

Fast Fashion’s Graveyard A documentary film by Ian Berry - COMING SOON - Artist Ian Berry makes a documentary about the clothes waste in the Atacama Desert in Chile named Fast Fashion’s Graveyard -&

More and more retailers have started sustainability initiatives designed to recycle old clothes, and many offer some extra money to participants in the form of…