A massive, illegal mountain of trashed clothes in Chile is made primarily of fast-fashion items from all over the world.

Fast fashion comes home to roost in Chinese landfills More than 26 million tons of clothes are thrown away each year Subscribers are entitled to 10 gift sharing articles each month.

China is the world’s largest textile producer and consumer, throwing away 26 million tons of clothes each year, mostly made of unrecyclable synthetics.

Cheaply made clothing is piling up in landfills, and experts are now alarmed by another way the fast-fashion industry is impacting the environment.

Critics of fast fashion have long detailed the industry’s environmental costs and unsavory labor practices. But Americans still spend an average of $1,700 per year on cheap new clothes.

So where will fast fashion go once it’s discarded, and now that it can’t have a second life on Vestiaire Collective? The obvious answer is where it’s been going all along – landfills.

Piles of trashed clothing stretch across the landfill, the vibrant colors of once-trendy garments fading under the sun.

The fast fashion industry is valued at over $100 billion, producing affordable, trendy clothes that are popular with young consumers. But the industry is under scrutiny for poor working conditions ...

This is fast fashion. Accelerated production of clothing using cheap labor and human-made materials for low quality products coupled with aggressive ad campaigns. Low-cost copies are big sellers at ...

26 million tons of clothing end up in China's landfills each year, propelled by fast fashion Associated Press | Wednesday, July 10, 2024 8:15 p.m.