{"id":67768,"date":"2024-04-30T13:49:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T18:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67768"},"modified":"2024-04-30T13:49:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T18:49:42","slug":"burn-after-wearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67768","title":{"rendered":"Burn After Wearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page__topper \">\n<div class=\"page__color-bar-sun-wrapper full_width default-logo\">\n<div class=\"page__inner page__inner__video\">\n<div class=\"topper topper-full-width topper--bg-\">\n<div class=\"topper-full-width__headings\">\n<header class=\"topper-headings\">\n<div class=\"topper-headings__inner\">\n<h3 class=\"topper-headings__title topper-headings__title--big\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/international\/burn-after-wearing-fashion-waste-chile\/\">Burn After Wearing<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"topper-headings__subtitle\"><strong>A mountain of used clothes appeared in Chile\u2019s desert. Then it went up in flames.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"topper-full-width__art\">\n<div class=\"topper-featured-image\">\n<div class=\"topper-featured-image__inner\">\n<figure class=\"topper-featured-image__figure\"><video class=\"topper-featured-video\" src=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/shirt1.mp4\" poster=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/international\/burn-after-wearing-fashion-waste-chile\/\" preload=\"auto\" autoplay=\"autoplay\" loop=\"loop\" muted=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"topper-featured-image__caption topper-featured-image__caption--\"><em aria-label=\"Credit:\">Cheng Hwa<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page__inner\"><main id=\"content\" class=\"js-modal-gallery article-page\" tabindex=\"-1\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"article__inner\">\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<div class=\"article-body js-hang-punc\">\n<div class=\"auris-audio-iframe\"><iframe id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/audio.adauris.ai\/v2\/widget\/Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\/IboDw2kxQ2H4mxDddlxe?distribution=true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\"><em>This story was produced by Grist and co-published with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Pa\u00eds<\/a><\/em>.<em>\u00a0A Spanish-language version\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/america-futura\/2024-01-04\/las-montanas-de-ropa-se-esfumaron-del-desierto-de-atacama-pero-el-problema-no-desaparecio.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can be read here<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0<em>Reporting was supported by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journalism.columbia.edu\/news\/2022-fellows-joan-konner-program-journalism-ideas-are-named\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joan Konner Program in the Journalism of Ideas<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-default-font-family\">On the morning of June 12, 2022, \u00c1ngela Astudillo, then a law student in her mid-20s, grabbed her water bottle and hopped into her red Nissan Juke. The co-founder of Dress Desert, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/desiertovestido_tarapaca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Desierto Vestido<\/a>, a textile recycling advocacy nonprofit, and the daughter of tree farmers, Astudillo lives in a gated apartment complex in Alto Hospicio, a dusty city at the edge of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, with her husband, daughter, bunny, and three aquatic turtles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Exiting the compound, Astudillo pinched the wheel, pulled over next to a car on the side of the road, and greeted B\u00e1rbara Pino, a fashion professor, and three of her students, who were waiting inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">They headed toward a mountain of sand known as El Paso de la Mula. Less than a mile from her home, squinting into the distance, Astudillo saw a thread of smoke rising from its direction. With her in the lead, the two vehicles caravanned toward the dune, the site of the second-largest clothes pile in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">As they got closer to El Paso de La Mula, the thin trail of smoke had expanded into a huge black cloud. Astudillo stopped the car and texted the academics behind her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\"><em>It looks like it\u2019s on fire.\u00a0<\/em><em>Hopefully, it\u2019s not there. \ud83d\ude41 \ud83d\ude41 \ud83d\ude41<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">She then dialed them directly and asked, \u201cDo you still want to go?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-ups-image alignfull js-breaks-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-ups-image-inner\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-ups-image-inner\"><span class=\"js-modal-gallery__trigger relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fotos-camara-Blusas-del-desierto-095-min.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fotos-camara-Blusas-del-desierto-095-min.jpg?w=1200 1200w, https:\/\/grist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fotos-camara-Blusas-del-desierto-095-min.jpg?w=330 330w, https:\/\/grist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fotos-camara-Blusas-del-desierto-095-min.jpg?w=1024 768w, https:\/\/grist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fotos-camara-Blusas-del-desierto-095-min.jpg?w=1200 1200w, https:\/\/grist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fotos-camara-Blusas-del-desierto-095-min.jpg?w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/grist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fotos-camara-Blusas-del-desierto-095-min.jpg?w=160&amp;h=90&amp;crop=1 160w, https:\/\/grist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fotos-camara-Blusas-del-desierto-095-min.jpg?w=640&amp;h=853&amp;crop=1 640w, https:\/\/grist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fotos-camara-Blusas-del-desierto-095-min.jpg?w=96&amp;h=96&amp;crop=1 96w, https:\/\/grist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fotos-camara-Blusas-del-desierto-095-min.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/grist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fotos-camara-Blusas-del-desierto-095-min.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"a Chilean flag stands in a traffic cone in the desert among burned piles of garbage\" data-caption=\"A Chilean flag stands in a traffic cone among burned piles of clothing in the Atacama Desert. \" data-credit=\"Fernando Alarc\u00f3n\" \/><button class=\"js-modal-gallery__open\" aria-label=\"Open modal gallery\"><\/button><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>A Chilean flag stands in a traffic cone among burned piles of clothing in the Atacama Desert.\u00a0<cite>Fernando Alarc\u00f3n<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burn After Wearing A mountain of used clothes appeared in Chile\u2019s desert. Then it went up in flames. Cheng Hwa This story was produced by Grist and co-published with\u00a0El Pa\u00eds.\u00a0A Spanish-language version\u00a0can be read here.\u00a0Reporting was supported by the\u00a0Joan Konner Program in the Journalism of Ideas. 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