Our correspondent Lavinia Muth visited Chile to report on the world’s biggest mountain of fashion waste but came away with a different perspective – and a very personal story.
Reports of an ever-growing mountain of textile waste in Chile’s Atacama Desert – which could reportedly be seen from space – inspired my journey to South America for an article that would hopefully illustrate fashion’s waste problem …
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