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  1. @skyhigh9474

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Buy quality clothes even though expensive and keep for decades not throwing away often. And fashion of those clothes has to be somewhat timeless. Ppl should stop buying stupid fashion.

  2. @user-eo7cy6zl5c

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    I have a best friend from Chile she or he looked to me like his or best friend and I appreciate everything she or he did for me ❤

  3. @driftergrey6154

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    The Atacama is so dry that it's difficult even for bacteria to survive there. How could the clothes biodegrade there if there is no "bio" to degrade it?! 🤔🧐

  4. @maxbone7274

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Do for homeless people who can't buy this thing .. Homeless people not only one county there's world wide

  5. @cristianfernandezrodriguez9077

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    One more reason to hate the kind of people that says "thats so last year" or whatever, i just dont get it, i use my clothes until they have holes and even sometimes i ask my mother if she can fix it (i cant sew for the life of me) this leave me with more money to spare on things i consider more important, like having dinner outside with my family, we have priorities wrong.

  6. @erepsekahs

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    And you wondered where the thrift shops get all their clothes. You should really tell your children.

  7. @marcteenhc9793

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    This is the definition of third-world country in a nutshell. Even after the problem has been identify, corruption and ignorance will keep it going forever.

  8. @Dontworryaboutit12

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Put a fricken ticket person up front and let people from around the world come and shop

  9. @user-kh6kd3fv8j

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Be grateful to US and EU for generating all this junk stuff 😂

  10. @EyFmS

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Why not put up a recycling plant with the cooperation of all the countries that dump their used clothing there. But knowing my native country there must be some well politically connected rich POS getting tons of money out of this. This needs to stop ASAP!!!

  11. @sakshirout2495

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Donate to India please we need some clothes

  12. @andrewmedanich2844

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    They blame everyone else for the clothes but continue to bring them in and then the govt fails to do anything productive with the clothing like using it for stuffing or even rags. Let's just burn the clothes because that's the best thing they could apparently come up with.

  13. @Gracia144JesusSaves

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Cutt or Recicle them and make 🏕️⛺of them

  14. @whitelotus1960

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Why are the clothes in a desert? Burn it.

  15. @memyself9959

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    These clothes can be sent to the poor Countries where People can wear them, but "Fast Fashion Mafia" don't want to see there BRAND wearing by poor !!☺️

  16. @gjvor3231

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    In our civilized world, every household has a waste bin that is emptied. With you everything is dumped at sea. Your government is corrupt and, like everywhere in Africa, begging and making claims for damages just to get money. Ghana clean up your own mess and the clothing industry laughs at you. Beggars

  17. @Angelo_Botta

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Tip of the iceberg.

  18. @designsbykeshav

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    I DONT UNDERSTAND HOW IS CHILE GOVERNMENT allowing them to dump there

  19. @klaszlo8260

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Az. A. Baj. Már. Nagyon. Ritka. A. 100sza'zale'k. Pamut. 95sza'zale'k. A. Pamut. 5sza'zalale'k. Poliészter. Helyette. Miért. Nem. Lehet. 5. Sza'zale'k. Elaszta'n. Vagy. Licra. Mie'rt. Kell. Az. A. Nyavalya's. Poliamid. Meg. A. Poliészter. Kinek. Jo'. U"zlet. Ez. Szeretne'm. Tudni. Vagy. A. Viszko'z. Me'g. Rosszabb. Mint. A. Polie'szter. Vagy. A. Poliamit. De. Egyik. Sem. Jo' ruha'nak. Me'g. 5sza'zale'k. Is. Nekem. Pl. Nagyon. Zavaró. A. Pamutot. Szeretem. Csak. De. Nagy. Ritkaság. Ami. Sza'zsza'zale'kban. Az

  20. @klaszlo8260

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Miből. Ke'szu"lnek. A. Fast. Fashion. Ruha'k. Hogy. Nem. Bomlanak. Le. E's. Ez. Kinek. Jo'e's. Miért?

  21. @janebrown1706

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Why not dig long trenches and bury it? It can't hurt the soil

  22. @calcontakemeaway9069

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    This is absolutely disgusting!!! These clothes could help many people around the world. But its resources are literally pilled up like garbage instead. Who makes this decision? Who sends these clothes to this country?

  23. @laianainlove

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    I’m ngl, i wanna go thrifting in that desert

  24. @kooltyme

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    so sad :(((( im literally in tears and crying so hard…..waa waa

  25. @otto3967

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    I still have 10 year old shirt I am wearing.

  26. @onesoul1s

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    why burn it? just leave it in one place there in that lifeless desert

  27. @swimmingcherry1

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    does anyone know if I can use a clip of this video for my video would that be copyrighted? (sorry just making sure)

  28. @abd12459

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Used clothes is a booming industry in the Philippines.. some seller even sold this like buying brand new ones

  29. @user-qg4fy6fh6q

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Good

  30. @lloydliveryservices

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Ask the Chinese tell them to pay or clean up because I know for sure there are 70 percent that made in 🇨🇳 China

  31. @Girl-rj3qe

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Many people sleeping without bedsheets, why couldn’t they recycle these to bedsheets for example. Would have provide more jobs to people too to convert them. The countries throwing these away can pay for the money needed to convert these

  32. @fantasyflare

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    burning the clothes is NOT THE ONLY SOLUTION! Use your imagination. Textiles can be a substrate for fiber resin or cement laminate sheets and used for fabrications and put to use. USE YOUR WILLPOWER TO CREATE AND PROBLEM SOLVE. Up-cycling is possible. Waste can be a resource. There is a free and valuable resource of all these textiles, a problem foisted upon the land that can be an opportunity. LOVE, INTELLIGENCE and COOPERATION is the solution, not anger and resentment. I've spent my life ranting and raging, now is time for healing the earth. Gluttony and wasteful practices may be infuriating. But I will venture my faith that the same countries from which these dumped materials originated could sponsor initiatives to make them an economic resource. There's no mention of how this waste got there and who benefited from accepting it. All I see on youtube is berating the origins of it, no accountability locally. It originated in donation, charity, a poorly informed one apparently, but this sour hate of the wealthier places it came from, no gratitude. I see a vast resource of strong fibers waiting for use. There is a way. Chile has silica and magnesium deposits. In an area with almost no precipitation, magnesium silicate cement can be used and reinforced with the textiles. If not this, then something else. Synthetic fibers could also be reconstituted into usable plastics with some chemistry. There are consequences to every industry. IT IS UP TO US TO FIND THE SOLUTIONS AND DO BETTER.

  33. @AndreasLarsson95

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    They should burn it to heat up their homes at the winter..with filters of course. So the smoke get cleaned

  34. @abelardochavez3426

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Bien por Chile, frio no pasan

  35. @thenbenagcz3931

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Give the clothes for free for people can't afford it

  36. @khanu12348

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Just give it to the poor children

  37. @paulafranciscac2787

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    A year ago after becoming aware of this problem I stopped buying new clothes, with the exception of socks , shoes and undergarments. No more trips to the mall. I buy everything in thrift shops. It is more fun. I have learned (thanks to you tube) to remove
    certain stains of garments and how to hem or do simple repairs! So much more satisfying. Stores like Zara, forever 21, and H& M should be held responsable for these problems. Slave labor, fabrics that rip, fade or shrink because of the awful quality… bad bad bad!

  38. @paulafranciscac2787

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Es un horror! Quien es el /los responsables de ese desastre ecológico? los importadores deberían usar parte de sus ganancias para crear un jardín botánico, y un hospital. Deberían ser multados por su abuso contra esa comunidad y el país entero.

  39. @clanrocks137

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Disgusting

  40. @12345678927164

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    The destruction of the earth, all thanks for greed and lack of care from corporations.

  41. @clarkkent9634

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    DO NOT LET THEM FOOL YOU!!!!
    THIS IS AN EXCUSE FOR ALL OF THOSE FACILITIES THEY BUILT ALONG ROUTE 25 AND ROUTE 21 GOING NORTH THAT REALLY ARE CONTROLLED BY ALIENS.
    YOU CAN EASILY SEE THEM RIGHT OUT IN THE OPEN AT THESE FACILITIES & MINES.
    YOU WILL SEE GIANT SKULLS AT THESE PLACES.
    THAT MEANS YOUR IN THE RIGHT SPOT.
    THIS IS ANOTHER COVER UP STORY SO WHEN PEOPLE SEE THE SKULLS AND BONES FROM ABOVE, THEY ASSUME IT'S JUST THIS GARBAGE.
    DO LET THEM LIE TO YOU.
    ALIENS ARE ALL OVER ANTOFAGASTA AND THE ENTIRE AREA GOING NORTH. THEY ARE NOT PLEASANT EITHER.

  42. @MARKLTD

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    El precio del crecimiento infinito en las ventas. Vender a costa de lo q sea, sin detenerse a pensar si en verdad se necesita esa cantidad q se produce. La sociedades de consumó la pesadilla para el medió ambiente del mundo y quizás la causa de nuestra desgracia ecológica.

  43. @lenoxleigh

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    There is a solution! There are incinerator machines that allow fibers to be turned back to usable soil however there needs to be change in people's habits. Consumerism is destroying everything.

  44. @lili-anne4858

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Es el basurero del mundo porque Chile lo permite. Así de sencillo. ¿Dónde estás las leyes? ¿Quien las ejecuta? ¿Dónde están las sanciones?

  45. @moonstonejan

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Solution will also start to every Individual. Just buy what you need and really want, stop yourself shopping and shopping when its not necessary.

  46. @moonstonejan

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    This is sometimes the problem with people with lots of money (even the not so rich people) just dump everything they want to dump once they find it old, and not even checking if a clothing is still useful to other people or not. If it cannot be used by other people, I suggest to recycle or reuse a cloth in a creative way. Yeah lets admit many people don't have time for this or do not want to spend time thinking how to recycle.

  47. @dianaconstantinescu9986

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Why the unsell clotes are not given to people who can t buy… Like food… The problem with the fast fashion clotes is that they become less quality and after few washes they simply disintegrate… I have seen this in zara, mango who used to have long lasting fast fashion clotes

  48. @titanas23

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    build yours streets with not needed clothing add some plastic don't know how? we have more then 7bil. people on this small planet all have internet connection ask how to do it ,humans all what we need it is just communication and talk and work

  49. @juamont

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    Bruh wtf just use it as a cloth to clean the floor, dont throw away clothes! they are so expensive

  50. @Shanemanarrow

    January 18, 2024 at 6:09 am

    You can't clothe homeless people with that? Really? You have to burn it..?

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