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chilean desert is a dumping ground for old clothes with cheap, easy to buy, worn briefly or not, a told then thrown away. this kind of consumption creates mountains of textile waste. but it's actively encouraged by the fast fashion industry. some produces boast up to $24.00 different collections per year. since 2000 global clothing production has doubled every year to an annual total of $100000000000.00 items. the fashion industry also emits more than $1200000000.00 tons of c o 2 per year. more than global air and ship travel combined, and yet 4300000 tons of cost of clothing, land in the trash, or even far away in the chile and desert were 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 the piles of used tires and then mountains of discarded cheap clothing. the stench of chemical vapors hangs in the air. freddy is a local man. he's angry about the desert landfills. but he's also aware that they give people an income you know, with iranian vehicle here, some people come here to find clothes for themselves or to sell at 2nd hand markets

in town. what of? there's no one here at the moment because some of the waste was incinerated recently. jennifer jennifer, i'm sorry, 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 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 glasgow fi. would that go masada? does 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. you're not in compassion right now. no one takes pity on us dinner. oh, i keep chickens and ducks. what do you do? are you and i grow some plants are you, are you doing well? nothing but a yellow. in new by alto, species authority, see the mountains of used clothes as a nuisance, but the environmental officer says he's powerless to do anything about it. in more than he was a given that business with used clothing is highly lucrative for dealers in the free trade zone. of a kicker, who import secondhand textiles. mm hm. okay. so there are 53 of these companies and their business model is very profitable. you look it up, but only for them. it's detrimental to the wider community miller, i'm in the little one of warner. 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 in it when they go medina, it depends what's in the containers at the, in some of it's in good condition, have an hour, but sometimes we have to throw a low quality textiles in the dump. what been good then sheila is south america's main 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 with a few. ok. 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 vehicle was here. 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 thought of the thought that though my 2 children and i came through the desert, let me call it. we had to leave behind our suit cases containing all our clothes. but we'd have never made it, but i wonder if i've used to pull my savings. glad every where we go. we see refugees who have travelled through the desert despite the scorching midday

sun. there is, family wants to keep going until they reach a key k where they hope to find work. ringback 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 board. we're not making much progress on that, but we haven't lost hope on a therapy kathy all my year, venezuelan refugees in chile often end up working for a pickens, 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. it us, sorry about your pop up. if we find discarded videos and a phone book from breyman bowl, and cotton socks that cost for euro's $0.49,

i p. o one. the mountain of clothing in the chilean desert is a symbol of the shocking hidden cost of the global fast fashion industry. best new and native casting session. these little packets might be handy, but they quickly land in the garbage bin. and they don't ross. in all web special, we chant the journey of such as a shake from the origins of the raw materials its 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 planet. find out more at d, w dot com slash plastic. the small kingdom of la 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. a 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 god damn. so he owned the so to 30 did misery. that is bringing will perhaps i will warn, will put a lot. i see nothing of the better life that they promised us would. rather if it were up to me, i would decide against building the damn that is needful water islip africa rains high and the souls of such water remains the little islands were to prove. we have been able to divert water

add to a sub africa, but we are limited by the quality of our environment. the pit i had one night 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, right, he sees village phase 2 of the le soto highlands water project started 3 years ago . one of 5 diamonds is being built here to supply water to neighboring south africa . the entire village has been moved to another location where i'm out of 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 adults,

while other people in south africans get the jobs we go hungry. one and they also took our fields till another by glass, in the cornfields of 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. then expansion of business needs more water. 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 $70000000.00 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, let him 5 years time. the dumb wool bull stand right? hair, $5000.00 hectares of land will them be flooded? as we are all away, this plan of projects would have social impacts and environmental impacts. and ha,

we as the project headline number of programs which had been there, discussed mac lead vocal amenities are as ways that means ha, ha ha, mitigating against the laws of land that the laws over there are crazy. ellia fin perpetual mer to sea sick. we heard exactly the same promises 24 years ago when the cat saddam was built. all other dams feet that water into this reservoir, from where its pipe to south africa. sick, we worked for the se and only legal center. it's helping local people like here in the village of maha. lang to now claim the compensation they were promised. yeah, i mean it's a while i know we don't with as everyone knows. yeah, i wrote that you were severely impacted by the construction of the dam. will you, he writes, have been traveled on may about martha. we all know why your water springs have run

dry, load my, which how soon will, how much would you, i don't, i mean, it may low again. tell that then we had decided to use the money to get our village connected up to electricity, e m. okay, low yet. but the development authority has done nothing on all. again, we're still waiting for power in my polling. my bit him, when i the idea decry later you and i did tell them after your we also promised us compensation for the loss of a homeland and the pain we had because of the resettlement of our nora. how can we are right? how part some people here got injured during the move with her tomorrow, but to this day we have not received anything really. dora, i picked up blue moon on the project, was conceived georgia by 2 undemocratic governments of south africa, apathy division, and the military. it at the gym in mistletoe. those governments

did not have monday to form the people they did that they said a need for the review of disability. the project is also threatened by massive soil erosion. the construction of the thumbs along with over grazing and climate change mean that more and more soil is being eroded by the rain and ends up in rivers. a sediment. in many places, only by a rock remains told to say, lay as a consultant for a national project, the aims to protect las or toes rivers. workers hair rebuilding low balls into the hillside to reduce the speed and force of rain more to run off and prevent erosion . they also remove invasive shrubs that would otherwise wipe out endemic pants, whose roots help to keep the soil in place with to current erosion. the life

of 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 bio diversity, the type of bird diversity that enables infiltration of water. o r o regional idea o done, which is ah limited. if we went to weird for 10 more, yes, there will be time when i may not be able to produce anything. and then we become a failed state. in my opinion, we are at the ring of saving this or letting it fall.

lulu mean lines are popular ingredients in cold drinks, the green freights of a cool, delicious refreshment, and a lot of vitamins to 100 milliliters of lime juice contain 30 milligrams of vitamins, c less than lemons. but still impressive. mexico is the world's largest exporter of citrus rates in 2020 it exported more than 800000 tons of lemons and limes. now, however, the mafia is getting involved as the evening descends over the yucatan peninsula. david 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. a good deal. i need the gun to defend my

limes from being stolen. mirabelle rolls, i don't want to kill any one. i just shoot into the air, and then they run away like the cora, the roller. a search in line prices has turned his farm into a growing small fortune. hence the nighttime thieves for them a crate of lines means enough food for several days. let it run through zillow as follows. they come here and fill up their rucksacks, or sometimes in groups of 5 m, and they take several crates for about $5000.00 pieces, worth zeros. siegel, carmen, figaro group is the equivalent of $230.00 euros losses. that really add up the 76 year old sometimes stays out until dawn on the lookout for suspicious activity for her i'll stay out for a little while longer and we'll see if anything moves or if i hear something more

than a 2 hour drive away. marcella avila patrols his families or chips together with his father, brother and nephew. thieves have struck here countless times in the process also destroying the next month. harvest. when the rope of the unit, the rope, as they pack limes into the clothes, they tear it all the trees around them. and in the morning we see that the smaller limes have also fallen off the mancha. are you the 2 episodes in mexico's growing plague of lime crime triggered by market price increases, leaving foreigners fighting against thieves and customers with high prices, which have risen $3.00 or 4 fold since the end of 2021. mexicans is an average of 18 killers of the fried per year. a stable fleet that served with practically every dish. all dessie salvazar back in everything from stu's to tacos. you need lives in element it without. it normally would buy a kilo, but these days only

a quarter key low because prices have risen so much marcial. but it's comic relieve content on social media with limes depicted as green gold as a cash alternative or a commodity. transported in ahmed 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 bought it or chavez 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 where the for the harvests or their

transportation that gives the cartels a share of profits while pushing a prices. any one refusing to pay up is threatened, or worse, montana killed traders, and going in and fix line prices. and then for the surely more how is they attack to you and dictate how much you have to pay them unless you know what was the of the can plain and simple manner? well in wiley chavez is determined to carry on the struggle. come, what may you was only me see who i lost one of my sons saudi was i me and a lot of friends who fought alongside me on bunyan. it's a pain that you're on will very deep. you say you will not let 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 feed was allowed one woman that local law enforcement provide support for the farmers patrol. squire example police steve nelson. avi law has been analyzing the thieves tactics in iraq . yasser 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 love that. and 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. if the, if for employ, if that goose 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 the metal on 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 up. 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 out this night has been a calm and quiet one for lime farmer, david medina. he summoned a sharmen in order to keep it that way. together they make a sacrificial offering of herbs to the sacred deities. rather be asked to name was an error. so 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 line prices to stabilize so that farmers like him can earn enough and sleep peacefully again. this lee county label team comes from the webinar and i have a global team. i started

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