Justice versus conscience

When I see that, I see all the resources, work, time and pollution (which happens on so many different ways, while producing clothes). To see such a thing is painful. I really am going to use this video for my students in class… Hopefully, the ones are in fast fashion will think about their “lifestyle” the others, I hope, they won’t fall into it!

The angers me on so many levels, and I’ve always known this was the case because I’ve actually witnessed the ragpickers on these dumps in various continents. Every person from gluttonous countries who insist on filling their closets with things they do not need and shopping at these clearance stores should be forced to clean up this mess. Think of the workers in countries such as Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam, Honduras etc etc etc working long hours to produce this unnecessary surplus only to have it flown all over the planet to end up in a dump like this. For those who say there is no easy answer I suggest there is an easy answer. Stop consuming so much cr@p you do not need. Sorry, rant over.

Just another reason why I love op-shopping and wearing clothes until they develop holes. Fast fashion is toxic and destructive, in so many ways.

I’ve never been one for fashion or clothes shopping. In fact, I haven’t bought any new clothes in years apart from replacing socks. This shows me that its more important then ever to not get drawn into the crazy fashion sense that people waste money and resources over. Your clothes are just a shell around your body, nothing more.

Never been a fan of fast fashion (or any fashion, to be honest) and throwaway culture we have (I’m in the UK and other areas). A lot of people here and some other places have this “If I can’t see it, it’s not there” attitude. Charity shops (and thrift stores) can only do so much. We need to reduce this waste now somehow.

When I see that, I see all the resources, work, time and pollution (which happens on so many different ways, while producing clothes). To see such a thing is painful. I really am going to use this video for my students in class… Hopefully, the ones are in fast fashion will think about their “lifestyle” the others, I hope, they won’t fall into it!

People are outraged, why? What do you think stores do? In America, they toss everything that doesn’t sell (which is a lot) into the trash compactor. Then it get picked up and taken to the dump. I think everyone should take a trip to their local trash dump, so they can see for themselves of what gets thrown away.

I’ve never been one for fashion or clothes shopping. In fact, I haven’t bought any new clothes in years apart from replacing socks. This shows me that its more important then ever to not get drawn into the crazy fashion sense that people waste money and resources over. Your clothes are just a shell around your body, nothing more.

The angers me on so many levels, and I’ve always known this was the case because I’ve actually witnessed the ragpickers on these dumps in various continents. Every person from gluttonous countries who insist on filling their closets with things they do not need and shopping at these clearance stores should be forced to clean up this mess. Think of the workers in countries such as Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam, Honduras etc etc etc working long hours to produce this unnecessary surplus only to have it flown all over the planet to end up in a dump like this. For those who say there is no easy answer I suggest there is an easy answer. Stop consuming so much cr@p you do not need. Sorry, rant over.

The angers me on so many levels, and I’ve always known this was the case because I’ve actually witnessed the ragpickers on these dumps in various continents. Every person from gluttonous countries who insist on filling their closets with things they do not need and shopping at these clearance stores should be forced to clean up this mess. Think of the workers in countries such as Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam, Honduras etc etc etc working long hours to produce this unnecessary surplus only to have it flown all over the planet to end up in a dump like this. For those who say there is no easy answer I suggest there is an easy answer. Stop consuming so much cr@p you do not need. Sorry, rant over.

The angers me on so many levels, and I’ve always known this was the case because I’ve actually witnessed the ragpickers on these dumps in various continents. Every person from gluttonous countries who insist on filling their closets with things they do not need and shopping at these clearance stores should be forced to clean up this mess. Think of the workers in countries such as Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam, Honduras etc etc etc working long hours to produce this unnecessary surplus only to have it flown all over the planet to end up in a dump like this. For those who say there is no easy answer I suggest there is an easy answer. Stop consuming so much cr@p you do not need. Sorry, rant over.

I can PROUDLY say that NONE of my clothes have ever ended up in a landfill. Also, I buy 100% cotton clothes whenever possible.

Call the factory owners to clean their mess, they’re destroying the nature of the planet.

Need to build a recycle plant to turn it all into new clothes that people WANT, and not throw away.

This is when WANT far exceeds NEED. Why does it happen? Greed.

When I see that, I see all the resources, work, time and pollution (which happens on so many different ways, while producing clothes). To see such a thing is painful. I really am going to use this video for my students in class… Hopefully, the ones are in fast fashion will think about their “lifestyle” the others, I hope, they won’t fall into it!

I’ve never been one for fashion or clothes shopping. In fact, I haven’t bought any new clothes in years apart from replacing socks. This shows me that its more important then ever to not get drawn into the crazy fashion sense that people waste money and resources over. Your clothes are just a shell around your body, nothing more.

The solution could be simple. Each individual stops consuming so much and go back to fewer things that are built to last..We need to change our views and perspectives!

Just another reason why I love op-shopping and wearing clothes until they develop holes. Fast fashion is toxic and destructive, in so many ways.

Qué importante es frenar eso, ese es un tipo de basura, ojalá nos mostraran también a dónde llega la basura de lo digital, cuánto contamina y cuanto degrada la tierra.

Just another reason why I love op-shopping and wearing clothes until they develop holes. Fast fashion is toxic and destructive, in so many ways.

I am very glad to have some of my clothing that is nearing the level where they have holes or friends simply identify me from a distance with the familiar sign of my clothes that go way back. Seriously why does Chile import so much non-sense?!

What the actual fudge! That’s horrific. Why is it being dumped there? Bout time they ship it back to the entitled countries who are happy for this to exist.

A lot of possible uses for those clothes. 1. Filling for packages and fragile things instead of Styrofoam. 2. Filling for large children’s dolls. 3. Filling for mattresses, and if not comfortable for sleeping then at least for play mattresses that kids jump on them or fall mattresses in sports classes. 4. Reusable bags can be sewn from them, instead of plastic bags that are given to us in stores. 5. From small cloth sheets it is possible to sew work gloves. 6. In many clothes you can make small repairs and sell them as second-hand clothes.

Never shop at primark. They are rubbish and they rip easily.

I grew up in the 40s and 50s. My generation is really in shock seeing these dumps. If we bought a dress, we wore that dress until it was outgrown, then it would be handed down to a sister or a cousin, by that time it was pretty thread bare, and the dress would be taken apart and rags would be made out of it. But then before the rags got too stained, grandma or an aunt would cut small squares of the fabric that wasn’t too thread bare, and make quilts out of it. So ya..,,we reused and repurposed fabrics.. the prettiest skirt I ever owned was made from one of my mothers old dresses.

I do not buy fast fashion as I like clothing that is well made and durable. I shop thrift shops and buy second hand when I want clothes. Contributing to this is not anything I will ever do.

It could be an great opportunity for them if they look on the brighter side, if they recycle it into finished goods

Amazing that none of it is donated to homeless shelters or women’s shelters. What a waste.

Greetings from Peru , for many generations the people of Peru and Chile have been rivals , why ? Our common enemy is big business , corporations and imperialist attitudes. Hope for the future that these two nations can find common ground and work together.

It could be an great opportunity for them if they look on the brighter side, if they recycle it into finished goods

One solution to this is to find a way to make this clothing into another product. The real solution is to stop the getting and spending and laying waste our power. I remember my parents had a small wardrobe and one chest of drawers that held all their clothes. They wore them till they wore out then gave them to the rag and bone man to be recycled into duffle coats.

The level of insanity is incomprehensible! How do you get to this point!

If Chile maintained proper dumps they could avoid this crap, and the clothes would eventually decompose with proper management and not impact on local ppl. It’s the desert literally the best place to have a dump. The land isn’t being used for anything else. This is the main problem it seems. Fast fashion is also part of issue

Need to build a recycle plant to turn it all into new clothes that people WANT, and not throw away.

Que pena!!!

10-20 years ago a t-shirt would last me 10-20 years, everything I buy now falls apart within 2 years!

As always is cheaper and easier to just dump stuff for companies. All these different companies should be held accountable for its destruction or invest in ways to try and recycle it. Out of sight out of mind for now. But what in the future for our Children and Grandchildren? What will be the cost to the Planet in the long run. I strongly believe we are one of the last generations to actually enjoy this planet without to many hardships just trying to survive and having a comfortable living

They should net it all and create huge oil spill emergency kits, that can be lifted and dropped into huge oil spills as an absorbant, then from the used net sponges spills sell them to powerstations as fuel. Turn it into x3 profit.

Why not just give it to the homeless to wear? I’m sure they are more concerned about layers during the winter months than what is fashionable. And they’ll often wear it until there is nothing left anyway so that it doesn’t go to waste.

D I S G U S T I N G !! BOYCOTT ALL FAST FASHION BRANDS

As someone from Chile I must say that the authorities are to blame. Chile is not a corrupt banana republic. Of course big corporations are also to blame, but the Chilean government has enough agency to prevent this from happening.

Some can be recycled/refilled. India does it. Then makes product and resells.

I love Chile 🇨🇱 from Somalia 🇸🇴

Somewhere in the future – outsiders are going to look at all this and deduce we were sick …

if news was presented in history book format(“boring”) from a “graphic” point of view , it’d wake people up to the fact that news is history, and more interesting-or boring, but more likely interesting. ^_^ &_& the changeling!

Only humans could do this much harm

Do you want Mothras? because this is how you get Mothras. On a serious note this is ridiculous, the people responsible for this from the manufacturer to the consumer should be made painfully aware of the damaging effects of their selfish frivolities and this disposable culture we allowed ourselves to slide into in this luxury of comfort driven society we wallow around in with no inertia, happy to be led along a path by greedy lying rich people.

Forums like you tube bring such problems to our attention. What happens to all the unsold clothes and the used and discarded clothes, sadly never crossed my mind before. There should be restrictions on how many items manufacturers can produce. The demand and supply needs to be regulated surely. If only a way could be found to drop all this waste into active volcanos, which are ideal natural incinerators.

The women at work are always online shopping for the next new item they will wear once. Its like their addicted

These clothes by removing the tag should go to poorer countries , so that they could buy at low cost .. instead of being deserted

In my country, a single pair of used panties can sell for hundreds of dollars. They’re sitting on a gold mine!

automobiles should be designed to last a hundred years. clothes should have a similar desgn concept of longevity. Tailored to last as long as reasonably possible. The whole nihilist design anti ethic of built in redundancy should be made a crime against humanity.

This is when WANT far exceeds NEED. Why does it happen? Greed.

This is how “free” market efficient. Efficient to produce 85% of waste.

The solution is simple. Build an incinerator near the dump. And integrate a multi layered filtering system in the incinerators chimney to filter out all pollutants from the waste gas produced from burning the clothes.

How about throwing all the clothes into a really deep hole and the lava will melt it? Somehow recirculate the fumes back into the ground? They put monkeys in space…

The solution is simple: the world needs to stop buying fast fashion!

No wonder Mother Nature is trying to rid herself of humans.

Buddha was right along that “unwholesome desire (for pleasure)” is the root of all misery. Destroying the planet and the millions of beautiful creatures who call this rock their home. Intellect without emotional intelligence is a horrible thing.

Do you have any Levi 501’s, 34/34?

And donating it to poor people? That could also sort out some of the problem? In addition to what I have read in some of the comments

More important things going on that the BBC could be reporting. Selective omission never looks good.

These rag/clothes traders should not be able to get away with selling these large bundles of substandard clothing thats not even fot for resale.Apart from the fact we should be making clothes to last and of natural fibres as much as possible.But being able to sell off these large bundles without much quality controll and bascially leave another country to deal with the waste..to think only 15% fit for resale and the rest is just transported waste that also has used fuel to be transported

Why can people recycle this waste ?? This can further be converted as raw materials for many products.

Scandalous !

Government that depends on other country’s for everything can not come up with solutions. Why not be inventive, shred it & make something from it. No instead all they worry about is how to blame it on someone else. It could be made into something useful like insulation or compressed into blocks to build new housing.

All of us in our countries we need to stop dumping rubbish We need to tell our governments or our countries to cycle are rubbish All of our rubbish need to use cycle normal dumping And for those countries who keep on dumping rubbish on other countries they need to be fined We need to put pressure on our governments to recycle and the keep the Earth and iwan life save We need to put pressure on our governments to recycle and the keep the Earth and iwan life save.

I wish the BBC would hire a narrator… I’d like to have time to look at the images in these videos. I spend most of my time reading…

Use hemp instead of polyester

En mi país, Chile no tenemos conciencia

We have ruined earth

Buy 100% cotton or him stay away from the polyesters.

It’s the younger generation that’s to blame for this not us older people that have done it wjth their named fashion clothing they want.

yet another reason we have to pay over 100 bucks for a par of pant when the cost prices is less then a dollar

I dont find any issues here. Atacama is just an empty desert atleast it has a use now

Only 15% is sold. Well, How about just giving them away to repurpose them?!?!?

Surely hemp clothing would be a better alternative to this

Fun fact: “If your parachute fails, you have the rest of your life to figure it out.” Have a cookie to feel better

Because of change style of clothes and price so cheap to make more garbages, this is also main case to make climate change too.

If so much is wasted why not just make less?

Future archeologists will not understand us

Build a power plant, burn them to produce electricity, and processing the smoke, is it difficult??

Humanity, I think we might have a problem.

We the people of the world need to sort out shit out ! this is vile ! .. .

Ironically I have to press the like button, even I super do not like what I’m watching and witnessing

give the clothes to the homeless.

Because everything is wrong with me. And everything seems to be with you. It all ends. It all ends in tragedy too.. We are a virus at best.

how much is my country, australia, paying chile to use as our dumping ground?

I wear my clothes until they are no longer usable and throw them in the trash. I have 20 year old shirts that I still wear, in some cases. There better be a hole or horrible stains before I throw my clothes out. Who sends their clothes to South America from the US? People should use their clothes until they are trash and then throw them out. I wear almost all cotton clothing. Do other people really wear more polyester? I apparently know nothing about clothing trends.

If they made stuff that lasted their capitalist/socialism dream would have ended sooner…and with it their control.

Very good information and chanal

Why are they taking the clothes into their country? Simply stop the import

Why don’t the “traders” stop doing this then? Stop importing goods you do not need or if there is an over abundance – try to use more local.

Fast fashion bad for environment

infrastructure and homelessness is graveyard in uk can you see that bbc

Hello I like this video it is good.

We need Polytax for cleaning the earth.

This is nuts. Why don’t they donate to those in need? Or recycle the fabric for reuse? Or make less, if you consistently over produce? Instead of illegally dumping and creating ecological and health problems for those living near the dump. This makes no sense to me.

Can garbage be burned away ?

How many people are without good adequate clothing in this world? They would surely be better off to help those rather than just dumped in a desert

Wow

Graveyards more Than graveyard

Hello I have done a thumbs up four this video.

Sad

Why they can’t eat them?

It’s all about overpopulation, Humanity is finished

Oh my god

This pollution is a UN problem. Base some soldiers there.

Once again say thank’s to China ….

𝓘𝓷 𝓪 𝓬𝓵𝓸𝓽𝓱 𝓲𝓷𝓭𝓾𝓼𝓽𝓻𝔂

Corporate greed.

Good morning From Fiji island 🇫🇯

Scary shit !

Holy smokes!!

you should give them to charity u sick ppl wasting clothes makiing it a problem for your self give to the poor its winter time give them around the workd to the poor u still trying to sell them and make money humanity is lost

Meanwhile in the uk……

Why don’t locals burnt away this garbage? I Think that is the best option

Burying them in the desert is probably smarter. People are so quick to just set crap on fire.

dam, i wonder why the video has no sound, my iphone 13 pro max 1tb connected to the bluetooth of my new mercedes c63 amg 2021

i put bbc into the search bar and this came up, kinda sus

Hello what is this video about and what is this four please.

Где же Грета Тунборг? С её заботой об окружающей среде?

Burn it for energy

Disgusting. Needs to stop.

BIG CROP TAX AND GREED

Hello what country is this video in and what launguige do they speek in.

Yeah …. Someone is making money off this . So shove yah sad bullcrap story and find them and have them pay

Garbage burning power plant.

Why guys always wear the same clothes everyday

The day is fast approaching in the which what people think is important now will shrink into insignificance & it will be said how petty were my thoughts/dreams /actions even my very existence was VAIN b/c it brought to the place I am now which is a place of hopelessness & despare. Only Jesus The Messiah Saves ! ~Maranatha~

Cant we just send all our clothes junk to the sun??? Or all the kinds of junk at that???

WAISTFUL HUMANITY HAS BECOME DON’T WON’T THROW AWAY KEEP HURTING ONLY WORLD THAT WILL SUPPORT PR LIVES WHAT ASS WE BECAME

I love H&M. They never do anyting wrong. India has not seen any sort of fast fashion (._.) it never happened apparently

15%

Every millennial/gen Z: “ho no look at all that garbage polluting the environment we should do something! Also every millennial/gen Z:”look at all those shirts that are on sale!”

Big steaming pile of shit. -George Carlin

High-efficient incineration powerplant. Problem solved.

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Para mi amorcito pamelita shu

Swap and share…..

I wonder how many womans shoes are there lol

ubereats pf chang’s and Netflix tonight

ووزززةىرة من و و

This doesn’t seem such a big deal to me. It is in the desert under the sun and heat, and they say it will disintegrate in 200 years, which is not that long.

But stagnant consumption could trigger a global recession.

Why is this a UK issue?