According to the report by Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Circular Fibers Initiative from 2017, entitled "A New Textiles Economy: Redesigning Fashion's Future", around 48 million tonnes of clothing are disposed of every year. 73% to 85% of the world's clothing that is disposed is directly landfilled or incinerated, leading to mountains of textile trash accumulating in several parts of the world: India, Pakistan, Ghana, and more recently Chile's desert Atacama. Moreover, textile products can take up to 200 years to fully decompose. With the overproduction of clothing and our fashion habits of buying and throwing away, these gigantic mountains are only getting bigger and bigger. This is known as the textile waste crisis.