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Chile targets fast fashion waste with landmark desert cleanup plan
Government move to regulate textile imports aims to curb clothing dumps in the Atacama and boost circular economy
Piles of garments stretch into the distance: consignments of nursing uniforms, shipments of shoes, bundles of work overalls and last season’s fast fashion discards, high street tags still attached. Photograph: Anadolu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images“This would spur a new consumer culture, as companies would be required to offer repair, reuse, and recycling services,” said Beatriz O’Brien, the national coordinator for NGO Fashion Revolution. The rest winds its way in a convoy of small trucks up to Alto Hospicio, a poor city sprawling across the plateau above Iquique, where the clothes are incorporated into a seemingly endless cycle of resale and reuse.
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