2023-05-24 01:59:21
The Atacama Desert, located regarding 1,800 km north of Santiago, the capital of Chile, is famous for being the driest place on earth, but recently it has been stigmatized as a giant ‘cloth grave’. This is because discarded clothes from all over the world gather here to form a huge mountain. On the 22nd (local time), foreign media such as Newsweek reported that the Tomb of Clothes in the Atacama Desert was also observed by satellite.
A photo released by SkyFi, an American real-time satellite image distribution platform company, confirms that clothes tombs made of colorful clothes are full on the brown desert. Garbage discarded clothes are piled up on the desert in such a huge amount that it can be seen as a satellite of the universe.
Many clothes abandoned here are fast fashion brand products that people around the world, including our country, have worn several times. Clothes discarded from all over the world, such as Gap, Mango, Zara, Uniqlo, and H&M, gathered here and became a garbage dump. According to an AFP report, 59,000 tonnes of second-hand and stock clothes enter the port of Iquique in northern Chile every year. Most of these clothes are old clothes made in factories in China or Bangladesh and worn by Asian, European and American consumers, but many are actually new. Afterwards, clothing merchants from Santiago select clothes with dual marketability and smuggle them out to other countries, but at least 39,000 tons of clothes are dumped in the Atacama Desert and become garbage.
As discarded clothes piled up every year in the Atacama Desert, this place became a clothes tomb, and now it has formed a huge mountain that can be seen even from satellites. In particular, clothes left unattended like this do not biodegrade and are as toxic as plastic, so they cannot be legally landfilled. Skypie said, “I learned regarding the Atacama Desert Cloth Tomb through past articles and wanted to check it.”
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