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To put the waste figure in human terms: clothing is now worn an average of just 7 to 10 times before being thrown away — a decline of more than 35% in just 15 years. That's not a wardrobe. That's a conveyor belt to landfill. And the landfill situation is literal. A desert in Chile's Atacama — one of the most remote places on Earth — has become so piled with discarded fast fashion that the heap of clothes is now visible from space via satellite imagery.