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Remember Chile’s Infamous Clothing Dump? It’s Growing, Despite Outrage

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…
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