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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, and 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 death. hm. we're the

intercom, a 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 of others, but he's also aware that they give people an income you're with you and ian vehicle here. 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 sorry. the robot. manuel. oh leave us is in charge here. she collects unsold clothing and brings it all here. you know, they don't want to fight that they, that the unilateral by that the little by you say bit of the clouds come from all over the wow. if federal back, you'll effect that sometimes they come from local shops and warehouse as well by telephone. if you would like grandma soda, 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 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 carrots. yeah, we'll get you about either for themselves or to salonica. that's my livelihood. you're going to stop that back to yoko manuel olivas lives in a wooden hut on the dumb site. she and her husband get a state pension. we're the equivalent of $115.00 euros a months. now,

the money she makes here is much needed extra income. they are not in income plus young lena. no one takes pity on us. dinner are gone, i keep chickens and ducks or were you do? i can and i grow some plants. okay. oh, are you doing when us, you in bro. yellow in nearby alto of species. oh, 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. fidelis in the freight trades, own of a kicker, who import secondhand textiles. there are 53 of these companies and their business model is very profitable. you look at, 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 accommodate 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, 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 other 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 on the 3rd go that those are my 2 children and i came through the desert. let me go. we had to leave the and i've used to pull my savings . glad everywhere we go. we see refugees who have travelled through the desert despite the scorching midday sun. there's 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 that's 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. i get the all 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. 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 icon. here over 9 for 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 native casting session. the central packets might be handy, but they quickly learned in the garbage been. they don't ross in all web special, we chant 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 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 damn, so he owned the so to 3 did misery. that is bringing back a wall will to the wall. 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 the damn the needful water. i saw a lovely car grains high and the sole source. such water remains the little islands waterproof. we have been able to divert water. i was haul africa, but we are limited by the quality of our environment. the

pit i had when i 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 damages is being built here to supply water to neighboring south africa. the entire village has been moved to another location. 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 till another by glass,

in the cornfields 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 me, urbanized ations taking place and future development. then expansion of business needs more water. and the problem is we're 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, let him 5 years time. the dumb wool will stand right, hair, 5000 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 headlight number of programs, which had been there, these customer lead vocal many desert 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 works for the santa legal center. it's hoping local people like here in the village of maha, lang to now claim the compensation they were promised. yeah, tommy, 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, 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 have it would you let me know. a again,

tell it then we had decided to use the money to get our village connected up to electricity even. 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 indicted tower monitor your we also promised us compensation for the loss of our homeland and the pain we had because of the resettlement by 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'd be happy to murder the project, was conceived georgia by to an democratic governments of south africa apathy division and the military hit him 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 the south toes, rivers. workers hair rebuilding low bowls into the hillside to reduce the speed and force of rain war 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 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 really? oh oh, 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 or letting me 9 or popular ingredients in cold drinks,

the green freights of a cool, delicious refreshment. and a lot of veterans to $100.00 milliliters of lime juice contains 30 milligrams of vitamin c less than lemons. but still impressive. mexico is the world's largest exporter of interest 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. 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. a vertical deal. i need the gun to defend my limes from being stolen every dell rolled. i don't want to kill any one. i just shoot into the air and then they run away like the coroner,

the roller assert and lime 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 until it's paula. they come here and fill up their rucksacks or sometimes in groups of 5 years . and they take several crates for about 5000 pieces, worth zeros, siegel cargo federal group of the equivalent of 230 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 will see if anything moves or if i hear something more than a 2 hour drive away. marcello 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 at 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 fruit per year, a stable fleet that served with practically every dish. hello, this is salvazar back in everything from stu's to tacos. you need lives in early morning. it without, it normally would buy a key low, 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 every talk is 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 prices. any one refusing to pay up is threatened,

or worse, montana killed traders. i'm going in and fixed line prices and then for the yearly more how is they attacked you and dictate how much you have to pay them? and unless you know hopelessly of the complain, anderson will money. 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 saudi's, i mean, and a lot of friends who fought alongside me on bunyan. it's a pain that your own 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 field was allowed one woman that local law enforcement provide support for the farmers patrols squire

example police. steve nelson avila 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 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 it but employ that this batch here is stolen goods. look into this and the themes won't say where they're from them. so that means we don't know who to return them to some, 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 facial,

some of them have to do a little cleaning work somewhere before they're released with them. certainly made others 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. so that 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, want dinner. and i also pray for the line prices to stabilize so that farmers like him can earn enough. and sleep peacefully again. this leakage label team comes from the webinar and i have 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 programming 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 out 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, but 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, sob sob. 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. it can be into many things such as murder, drug abuse, and insecurity. and hopefully there can be a solution for poverty, sola the hell is that the fed and that's so from us at global 3000 this weekend,

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