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a row over lines one and yet lost the tough water dale between south africa, endless soto. but 1st bought and then thrown away. the chilean desert is a dumping ground for old clothes with cheap, easy to buy, worn, briefly or not 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 most 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 chilly and destiny. where in the uh, tacoma 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 make shift 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 you and ian vehicle,

he and some people come here to find clothes for themselves or to sell at 2nd hand markets in town. one of them, there's no one here at the moment because some of the waste was incinerated recently. jennifer jennifer, i'm fine. the robot. manuel. oh, leave us is in charge here. she collects unsold clothing and brings it all here, and then that's, you know, they don't want to fight they the unilateral by that the little by you say bit of the clothes come from all over the wow. if that robot, you'll affect that sometimes they come from local shops in warehouse as well, by collateral for you, what i call masada. i go there and ask if they have any stuff they can give me pony it. but i want to say you as soon as manuel olivas 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. that's my livelihood.

you're going to stop 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. now the money she makes here is much needed extra income. they are not in compassion. they know no one takes pity on us. dinner are gone, i keep chickens and ducks or were you to? i've been and i grow some plants. okay. oh, are you doing when us, you in bro. yellow in nearby alto, specie o 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 given a business refused 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 miller. 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 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 an hour, but sometimes we have to throw low quality textiles in the dumb weapon companies. 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 the key k free trade zone users association. he says the situation is improving. oh, boy, well, the feel, casey into 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 other vehicle was, the situation is definitely going to change it with me. 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 food go that the my 2 children and i came through the desert. let me call. 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 the blood everywhere we go.

we see refugees who have traveled through the desert despite the scorching midday sun. those family wants to keep going until they reach a key case where they hope to find work. the city is 200 kilometers away. the family looks exhausted. we normally, it's hot. oh, it took us 4 days to get here from the border. 20 kilometers away on board. we're not making much progress. landed, but we haven't lost hope. gonna happy get ya, my year venezuelan refugees in chile often end up working for a pittance, including here in the landfills site. 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 partner, but we find discarded videos and

a phone book from breyman bowl and cotton socks that cost for euro's $0.49 a pound p. o women should see the mountain of clothing in the chilean desert is a symbol of shocking, hidden cost of the global fast fashion industry. this 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 chart 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 haze 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 it's 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. he owned a suitably bit misery. that is, bringing perhaps worn. we'll put away. i see nothing of the better life that they promised us would. rather, if it were up to me, i would decide against that building, madame. ah, that is needful,

water islip africa. graves high and the sole source. such water remains the little islands waterproof. we have been able to divert water add to a small africa, but we are limited by the quality of our environment. the pit i am a 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. oh,

wow. the construction work hit us hard. they had promised us jobs. 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. yeah. so another thing about gas in the cornfields and grazing land. now, how's construction workers? far from leading to greater prosperity, the dam has brought misery for residents. 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 me. 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 joslyn's 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 soto uses the dams to generate electricity for its population. the local project manager from the list, so time highlands authority tells us, let him 5 years time. the dumb wool will stand bright hair,

$5000.00 hectares of land. will them be flooded? calling about america. as we are all away, this kind of projects would have social impacts and environmental impacts. and so we as the project total number of programs, which had been there, discussed mac lead vocal mean it is a, as ways that means ha, ha, ha, mitigating against the laws of land that the laws over there are crazy we have and we're patch me to see, sic, we heard exactly the same promises 24 years ago when the cap saddam was built. all other dams feet that water into this reservoir, from where its pike to south africa. sick we works for the se and only legal center . it's hoping local people like here in the village of my lang to now claim the compensation they were promised it. i mean it's

a while i know who we young with as everyone knows. yeah. i wrote that you were severely impacted by the construction of the dan will you? he writes, have been traveled on may about martha. we all know why your water springs have run dry load. my, which i own will have it for you. i don't, i mean it in the working tell that then we had decided to use the money to get our village connected up to electricity. him. okay. oh yeah. the but the development authority has done nothing. well look at, we're still waiting for power in my pulling my bid in the area. i declare late, i you and i did 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. 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 got had a blue moon on there for you to was conceived jill bye to

andy, milk, antique governments of south africa, a possibility him and the military and the gym in minnesota. those governments did not have mandate from the people. they did that, they said need for the review or basically to the project is 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 rivers. a sediment in many places only by rock remains totally to say, lay as a consultant for a national project. the aims to protect the photos, 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 plants whose roots help to keep the soil in place with the 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 diversity that enables infiltration of water. oh regional idea. oh 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 a popular ingredient in cold drinks. the green freights offer coal, delicious refreshments, and a lot of vitamins to $100.00 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 at 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 vertical deal. i need the gun to defend my limes from being stolen. mirabelle rolled, i don't want to kill any one. i just shoot into the air and then they run away well at the corner of the royal assert and lime prices has turned his fond 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 until it's paula. they come here and fill up their rucksacks or sometimes in groups of 5. hm. and they take several crates for about $5000.00 pieces worth 0, single carbon federal group of the equivalent of 230 years losses. that really add up the 76 year old sometime 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 montes' a 2 hour drive away, my fellow avila patrols his family's orchard together with his father, brother and nephew. thieves have struck here countless times in the process also destroying the next month. harvest when the robot, the, you know, the rope 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 foreigners fighting against thieves and customers with high prices which 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 or lagossi salvazar bag in everything from stews to tar goes. you need limes in early, more ebb without it normally would buy a key low. but these days only a quarter kilo, because prices 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 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 than the others they're afraid of

getting killed if they talk. every one he says, pays protection money $1.00 way or the other, whether 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 kill traders. i'm going in and fixed line prices in, in increasingly more. how is they attack you and dictate how much you have to pay them? as he looked to see if the complain edison goldman le, well in wiley 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, companion. 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 fruits. and that gap in supply on the market is a further reason for the rise in prices back in you got on the farmers, at least don't have the cartels to worry about just the petty line feel. it was allowed one for monday. local law enforcement provide support for the farmers patrols. squires up of police chief nelson avila has been analyzing the thieves tactics. iraq yasser lug room. hello, 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 if the, if for employee, if 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. let him on some of those apprehended,

i'll repeat offenders, but there is little the police can do to the frustration of the farmers and only 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 us this nice 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. one dinner 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 am a global team. 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 name ma'am mazin. i'm 15 years old and i live in tripoli, lebanon. although my father is 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. d . a bentley in 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 about that, 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. but on, 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. by ha, if i was born on the day when now the corona virus is a globe problems, and in my opinion, poverty is

a social dilemma. akin been to many things such as murder, drug abuse, and insecurity. and hopefully there can be a solution for poverty. so a bit to helen that and that so from us at global 3000 this week, thanks for joining us. and do sent us your views on the program, where at global 3000 at d, w dot com and you can visit us on facebook to dw global ideas. see you next week. take care. ah ah, with

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