61) Fashion's Waste Crisis in the Atacama Desert | with SumOfUs and Desierto Vestido

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Late last year, the realities of fashion’s waste crisis in the Atacama Desert made headlines. You might have seen some of them:

"The fast fashion graveyard in Chile's Atacama Desert", or "Chile's Atacama Desert: Where Fast Fashion Goes to Die" or maybe "Chile's Desert: dumping ground for fast fashion's leftovers".

In this episode, we're hearing from Angela of Desierto Vestido and Laura from SumOfUs to go beyond the headlines to discover what led to this waste crisis decades before it grabbed the attention of the media and how things have been faring after the news stories died down…

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