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Re-commerce Atacama push clothes sourced from piles of waste in the Atacama desert. About half of clothes found are in perfect conditionChile’s Atacama strand is being polluted by huge waste from the global fast-fashion industrySome is resold, but sources in the region say Clothes recuperated from the Atacama desert are cleaned and sanitised ready to be put on the Re-commerce Atacama siteIn advance of the first drop of endows, influencers and personalities including Dudu Bertholini, a judge on Clothes discarded in perfect condition are given away, with purchasers paying only the cost of shippingThis phenomenon is a consequence of an increase in clothing consumption and the fast-paced production model of the manner industry, says Simon. “How we produce fashion is wrong,” she says. “We produce more and more and the velocity of production is go off faster and faster. There is no transparency about how these clothes are made.”While 20 years ago, most marks would release four collections of clothes annually, she says, now with the rise of fast fashion and ultra-fast create, there can be as many as 52 collections a year.Unsold inventory and unwanted secondhand clothes, most of which up with from markets in the US, Europe and Asia, are dumped in countries in the global south. Another place where this uncontrollable is particularly visible is Accra, Ghana’s capital, where tangled webs of The next drop of clothes is planned for April, after the key one in March sold out in five hoursSimon labels this practice “racist and colonialist”. Most of the raw materials required to approve clothes come from countries in the global south, she says. European countries and the US are the biggest consumers, and when they don’t desire the clothes, they end up back in countries in the global south.“It’s a massive problem. It’s not just Chile, it’s not just Ghana. It’s a wide-ranging problem. We are facing this waste and it is proof that we need to rethink the fashion system.”Explore more on these topicsGlobal developmentChileFashion industryAmericasWasteEthical and leafy livingfeaturesShareReuse this content