duction has doubled every year to an annual total of $100000000000.00 items. the fashion industry also in small than $1200000.00 tons of c o 2 per year. more than global average ship travel combines and yet 4300000 tons of cost of closing land in the trash or even far away in the chilean destiny. we're in the auto comp desert in northern chile. this is where the global fashion industries, discarded clothing ends up. locals are taking us to the dumb site, past informal settlements, where mainly migrant workers live in makeshift huts without electricity. we drive past piles of used tires and then mountains of discarded cheap clothing. the stench of chemical vapors hence in the air.

freddy is a local man. he's angry about the desert landfills up up. but he's also aware that they give people an income you know, with iranian vehicle he and some people come here to find clothes for themselves or to sell it 2nd hand markets in town. what about? there's no one here at the moment because some of the waste was incinerated recently. jennifer, jennifer turned the robot. manuel olivas is in charge here. she collects unsold clothing and brings it all here. you know that, oh no, no. i think they love them unilateral by the door or by you say bit of the clothes come from all over the wow. if federal bar a you'll effect that sometimes they come from local shops in warehouse as well by collect sophie would that go masada? i go there and ask if they have any stuff they can give me pony it,

but i want to say you are sudak, manuel olibo st decides who can help themselves to the piles of discarded textiles . you'll been, dea, a thought. i get money from people who come here looking for clouds. yeah, we'll get you about either for themselves or to salanda equity. that's my livelihood. you're going to sub that back to your cobra. manuel olivas lives in a wooden hut on the dumb site. she and her husband get a state pension worth the equivalent of 115 euros a month. the money she makes here is much needed extra income. they are not in compassion. now no one takes pity on us dinner. oh god, i keep chickens and ducks. what do you do? are you going and i grow some plants are you are, you didn't want us you bro! yahoo! in new by alto, species authorities see the mountains of used clothes as a nuisance. but the environmental officer says he's powerless to do anything about it in a while,

and he wasn't given that business with used clothing is highly lucrative for dealers in the free trade zone of a kicker. who import secondhand textiles. there are 53 of these companies and their business model is very profitable. you look at it, but only for them. it's detrimental to the wider community. i'm in the little and i wanna we had to e, kiki, the provincial capital sandwiched between the desert and the pacific. this used to be a depressed region until the container port was built here. and the free trade zones off recreated. companies operating here enjoy tax exemptions, including apparel importers, unsold and used clothes from around the world, including germany are partly sold to buyers in the region, but an estimated 40 percent ends up in the landfill sites. you can even go medina, it depends what's in the containers at the in some of it's in good condition have

our but sometimes we have to throw a low quality textiles in the dumb weapon. good venue. sheila is south america's mean importer of used clothing in neighboring countries. it's illegal or restricted . the result is the vast dumping ground in the desert. we meet dario blanco, head of keke, a free trade zone users association. he says the situation is improving. oh, boy. well, if you'd care, he thought a, what i can say is that the clothing important companies want to help things improve . they want to address the negative impact of their business model. the situation is definitely going to change it, but most of the clothing is made of synthetic fabrics and takes years to buy or degrade. this family sifting through the piles of used clothes or refugees from venezuela. they're looking for clothes they can wear and also anything they

can sell. and i dug around the to go the thought, my 2 children and i came through the desert because we had to leave behind our suit cases containing all our clothes. but we'd have never made it, but i warner media and i've used to pull my savings. glad that every where we go. we see refugees who have traveled through the desert despite the scorching midday sun, there's family wants to keep going until they reach aka, where they hope to find work. the city is 200 kilometers away. the family looks exhausted. we normally see it's hot. oh, it took us 4 days to get it from the border. 20 kilometers away on. we're not making venezuelan refugees in chile, often end up working for a pickles, including here in the landfill sites. this one is 12000 kilometers from europe,

but it doesn't take long for us to find items that are clearly from germany. us side about your problem. because we find discarded videos and a phone book from breyman bowl, and cotton socks that cost for euro's $0.49 a pound. here over 9 foot, the mountain of clothing in the chilean desert is of symbol of the shocking hidden cost of the global fast fashion industry. best new and made of plastic sashes. these little packets might be handy, but they quickly learned in the garbage bin, and they don't ross. in all web special, we count the journey of such a sashay from the origins of the raw materials it's made from to its ends on the rubbish heap. we find out why the number of such hayes is growing and why they're so lucrative for businesses. and so disastrous for our planets. find out more at d,

w dot com slash plastic. the small kingdom of le soto, known as the roof of africa, is one of the world's highest situated countries. as an enclave, it's entirely surrounded by south africa and is largely economically dependent on its bigger neighbor button. the soto has something very valuable for drought played south africa water. increasingly, however, this provision of water for its neighbor is creating problems for both local people and the ecosystem. water rich, la soto is keeping thirsty south africa alive. but the tiny, landlocked country as paying a high price for it. we didn't anticipate to dodge dams here in the sotu. nobody did me sorry. that is bringing back a wall will to the wall. i see nothing of the better life that they promised us

with that if it were up to me, i would decide against that building the damn the lid for water islip africa, grades high, that the souls of such water remains the lazoodo islands were to project. we have been able to divert water. it was hard africa, but we are limited by the quality of our environment and the computer will not back when the children were growing up. this was a beautiful and peaceful village. we looked out for each other. nobody here went to bed hungry, but look what happens now. people don't trust each other any more. it's just not the same. here in much harbor righty sees village. phase 2 of the le soto highlands water project started 3 years ago. one of 5 dms is being built her to

supply water to neighboring south africa. the entire village has been moved to another location. yes ma'am. how the construction work hit us hard. they had promised us jobs and i wasn't. our children are supposed to be earning something from this, but instead they're out of work for i babbled while other people in south africans get the jobs we go hungry one. and they also took our fields till another about gas in the corn fields and grazing land. now, how's construction workers? far from leading to greater prosperity, the dam has brought misery for residence, driving 8000 people from their homes. the water will flow to south africa's financial hub, johannesburg, 400 kilometers away for the 16000000 people in the city and surrounding province la. so toes dams a vital and already provide 60 percent of their water since

the project is financed with south african taxpayers, money. union kline hans has been monitoring it for a long time. he works for the organisation outer, which seeks to expose corruption and mismanagement, urbanized ations taking place and future development and expansion of business needs more water. and the problem is we are only very limited to the water that we have in south africa. we don't have innovative technologies and circulated infrastructure yet to recycle water. and currently we highly rely on the las jar lens face to scheme to provide future demands. it's one of the largest infrastructure projects in africa and is supposed to benefit both sides. south africa, paisley soto, nearly $17000000.00 euros a year for the water under so tight uses the dams to generate electricity for its population of the local project manager from the list. so time highlands authority

tells us that to him 5 years time, the dumb wool will stand right? hair, $5000.00 hectares of land will them be flooded? as we are all away, this kind of projects would have social impacts and environmental impacts. and i, we, as the project helpful at number of programs, which had been discussed, mac lead vocal many, it is a, as ways that means ha, ha, ha, mitigating against the laws of land that the laws over there, grazing alia, fin perpetual mer to sea sick, we heard exactly the same promises 24 years ago when the cat saddam was built. all other dams feed that water into this reservoir from where it's piped to south africa. sick, we works for the se and only legal center. it's helping local people like here in

the village of my lang to now claim the compensation they were promised. it's a while on yahoo way. down with as everyone knows. yeah, i wrote that you were severely impacted by the construction of the dam. will you, your rights have been traveled on may about martha. we all know why your water springs have run dry, the load law, which i won't have it for, you will not be in the war game tele, then we had decided to use the money to get our village connected up to electricity . him. okay, we'll hear that, but the development authority has done nothing. well or look at us, we're still waiting for power in my pulling my bid in the area decry late. i don't know to tell them when i tell you we also promised compensation for the loss of our homeland and the pain we had because of the resettlement. and how could i help? some people here got injured during the move wouldn't be too much to this day. we

have not received anything really had that blue moon on the body to us conceived. you'll buy 2 and the milk, antique governments of south africa proceed to the gym and the military and the gym in minnesota. those governments did not have mandate from the people they did. they said need for the review or basically to the project. there's also threatened by massive soil erosion, the construction of the dams, along with overgrazing and the climate change mean more and more soil is being eroded by the rain and ends up in reference, a sediment. in many places, only by a rock remains totally to say, lay as a consultant for

a national project. the aims to protect the photos, rivers, work as hair rebuilding low walls into the hillside to reduce the speed and force of rain water run off and prevent erosion. they also remove invasive shrubs that would otherwise whitehouse endemic clones. he's roots help to keep the soil in place with the current erosion the life off. such dems would be fairly compromised the lifetime, because in no time there will be more full of sediment done water. so this would be lost investment and therefore we depend largely on biodiversity, the type of visit to enable infiltration of water. oh,

which is the space we went to weird for 10 more. yes, there will be time will not be able to produce anything. and then we become a failed state. in my opinion, i read the rings of saving this for letting me 9 popular ingredients in cold drinks. the green fruits of cool, delicious refreshment, and a lot of veterans to $100.00 milliliters of lime juice contains 30 milligrams of vitamin c less than lemon. but that impressive mexico is the world's largest exporter of interest rates. in 2028, exported more than 800000 tons of lemons and limes. now, however, the mafia is getting involved as the evening descends over the yucatan peninsula. w

medina gets out his single barrel shotgun. he inherited the 20 gauge harrington from his grandfather. it may be an antique weapon, but it does the job vertical day will i need the gun to defend my limes from being stolen. i don't want to kill any one. i just shoot into the air and then they run away like the cora arroyo, a search and line prices has turned his farm into a growing small fortune. hence the night time thieves for them a crace of lines means enough food for several days. let it run through or to live with paula. they come here and fill up their rucksacks or sometimes in groups of 5 . and they take several crates for about $5000.00 pieces worth 0, single carbon photographer. the equivalent of 230 years losses.

that really add up the 76 year old sometimes stays out until dawn on the lookout for suspicious activity. for referral, i'll stay out for a little while longer and we'll see if anything moves or if i hear something montes'. a 2 hour drive away my fellow avila patrols his family's orchards together with his father, brother and nephew. thieves have struck here countless times in the process also destroying the next month. harvest. when i drop of the unit a little as they pack limes into the clothes, they tear at all the trees around them. and in the morning we see that the smaller limes have also fallen off the mancha. you the 2 episodes in mexico's growing plague of lime crime, triggered by market price increases, leaving farmers fighting against thieves and customers with high prices would have

risen $3.00 or 4 fold since the end of 2021. mexicans eat an average of 18 killers of the fruit per year, a stable food that served with practically every dish, all of his salvazar bug in everything from stews to, to argos. you need lines in early morning. it without it normally we'd buy a key low, but these days only a quarter kilo because peices of risen so much marcial. but it's comic relief content on social media with limes depicted as green gold as a cash alternative or a commodity. transported in armored security vans as engagement rings for making people millionaires behind the soaring prices. there are several factors, the climate, the season, and the state of me to walk on. the land here ought to be covered in lime green. but fighting cartels left farmers in the crossfire forcing many of them to quit. he

bullied such others has decided to stand his ground defying the criminals with his own vigilante group. he's the only farmer here, willing to talk on camera. i'm going to have found the others they're afraid of getting killed if they talk every one he says, pays protection money one way or the other, whether for the harvests or their transportation, that gives the cartels a share of profits while pushing a prices. anyone refusing to pay up is threatened, or worse, montana they kill traders and going in and fix line prices in, in increasingly more how they attack you and dictate how much you have to pay them . and then the seattle was, here's the company i had a similar manner. we're in wylie chavez is determined to carry on the struggle. come what may hill was only me see who i lost one of my son. saudis, and a lot of friends who'd fought alongside me from by yes ma'am. it's a pain that you're on will very deep kiss or you will,

none of them. other farmers have already fled the violence, leaving behind tens of thousands of trees to wither away with no one to harvest their fries. and that gap in supply on the market is a further reason for the rise in prices. back in you can turn the farmers at least don't have the cartels to worry about just the petty line theory level for monday. local law enforcement provide support for the farmers patrol squad example. police chief nelson avila has been analyzing the thieves tactics. it'll piazza, let them alone. what do they do? they don't come in through the main entrance. they cut themselves a path through here to gain access to the premises. when it, the thought is that i don't know if that well, he hopes crisis will come down a little soon and that com will be restored to the community. he currently had his 5 lime thieves a week together with their whole to see us for employers that this batch here is

stolen. goods look into this and the themes won't say where they're from. so that means we don't know who to return them to some of those apprehended, i'll repeat offenders, but there is little the police can do to the frustration of the farmers and order it by family, mournful the quantity stolen by each individual is too small to charge them so they're held in custody for $24.00 or 36 hours, whether it's a fatal. some of them have to do a little cleaning work somewhere before they're released within. sadly made us this night has been a calm and quiet one for lime farmer, david medina. he summoned a showman in order to keep it that way. together they make a sacrificial offering of herbs to the sacred deities. brother be after him was an error. we do this because we have faith that will work so that we're able to harvest our fruit wanted and i also pray for the lime prices to stabilize so

that farmers like him can earn enough and sleep peacefully again. this lee can't label team comes from 11 and i hamp a global team and i started karate when i was 5 years old. honestly, i used to find it a bit boring summer, but my father continued encouraging me to go to training agenda. i participated in many international and regional competitions. my name is no ma'am mazin. i'm 15 years old and i live in tripoli, lebanon. although my father was the manager of the program department, a at a company called soft wave and is one of for partners of the company. and my mother

is a french teacher and has a ph. d. he abandoned with many kids don't like school, but i do, i get to hang up with my friends and benefit from my education is that with them and i think, but when i'm older, i want to be a lawyer, but it's everything is heading towards technology. i'd like to be something in between a lawyer and a computer engineer. with in europe, of course, their lives are probably better. they have more freedom and more development. i'm on the other hand, in some countries like in africa, life is hard and they struggle to get basic necessities problem solving

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