Chile to crack down on textile waste dumped in Atacama Desert
by editors@theworld.org (Hannah Chanatry) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6Y9FS)
The Atacama Desert in Chile is home to a massive, and growing, mountain of discarded clothes and textiles. The items are remnants of secondhand clothes imported into the country to resell. To address the problem, the Chilean government has added textiles to its producer responsibility law. The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with fashion geopolitics expert Barbara Pino about the problem, and the proposed solution.