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Back to EpisodesChile's Textile Waste Solution: Shredding Fashion Graveyard
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Chiles Textile Waste Crisis: A New Solution Emerges - Chile imports vast amounts of used clothes, leading to illegal dumping in the Atacama Desert. A new law, Extended Producer Responsibility, is pushing importers to manage end-of-life textiles. Turkish businessman Bekir Conkur is building a factory to process clothes into fibers and felt, potentially cleaning up desert dumps and turning waste into profit.
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