Growing pile of clothing in the Atacama Desert in Chile Screenshot: SkyFi (Fair Use) The world’s fast-fashion addiction is wrecking the planet. It’s also contributing to an enormous and ...

The clothing pile, which contains everything from Christmas sweaters to ski boots, is located in the Atacama Desert—the driest non-polar desert in the world—near the municipality of Alto ...

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 space.

SkyFi said it obtained the image for $44. “The satellite image that we ordered of the clothes pile in Chile’s Atacama Desert really puts things into perspective,” reads the SkyFi blog post.

A giant dump of unused fast fashion clothing in Chile's Atacama Desert is now clearly visible ... and it shows how big the pile is compared to the city in the bottom of the picture," the ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - A Texas-based satellite imagery company recently confirmed that huge piles of unsold, discarded clothing in Chile’s Atacama Desert can be seen from ... we have captured an image ...

Now, a pile of discarded clothes, almost as big as a town, in the Atacama Desert of Chile is visible from space, and it is growing, per Space.com. In 2023, a satellite image of the mountain of ...

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile stretches from ... On a cool afternoon, a woman named Génesis rummaged through a pile of formal clothes, nurses’ uniforms, underwear, and Crocs, taking ...

The cofounder of Dress Desert, or Desierto Vestido ... the site of the second-largest clothes pile in the world. As they got closer to El Paso de la Mula, the thin trail of smoke had expanded ...

The satellite image that we ordered of the clothes pile in Chile's Atacama Desert really puts things into perspective,' a spokesperson for SkyFi said. 'The size of the pile and the pollution it's ...

In “Source Material,” George Washington University’s Textile Museum scrutinizes fast fashion, clothing waste and reclaimed ...