Chile's Atacama Desert Transformed in a Discarded Clothing Graveyard
Americas Now • 10m
Two images that don’t go together. Mountains of discarded clothing from retailers piled in the middle of the driest desert on Earth. Harris Whitbeck tells us how the Atacama Desert has become a fashion graveyard.
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