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>> now we have kind of instant fashion, throwaway fashion. >> but where do all the clothes end up when we're done with them? >> part of abc's "the power of us" series, taking you inside one of the real costs of fast fashion, and how you can help. plus trump on trial. opening statements in the trump hush money case making him the first president to ever face criminal court proceedings. >> it's a very, very sad day in america. i can tell you that. >> taking the stand former national enquirer ceo david pecker. explosive details from inside the court. and -- ♪ if i could turn back time ♪ >> the rock & roll hall of fame. "if i could turn back time" icon cher." and flying again metal icon ozzie osborne. and a celebration with kool and

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ever to find and purchase a constantly updating wardrobe. as we buy, many of us donate our castoffs and maybe feel we're making some sort of positive difference. but abc's chief climate correspondent ginger zee shows us where much of that donated clothing often ends up. part of our network wide earth day series, "the pow oerf us." >> today's great day. let me show you what i got. i don't even know what i got from h & m. >> we've seen the tiktoks. >> giant teemu on boxing. >> huge. >> this dress. >> fast videos of people consuming fast fashion. >> the largest zara have ever seen. >> i don't know where to start. are you joking? >> showing off their hauls from a growing number of brands that often make trendy fashion quickly and cheaply available to consumers. >> now we have kind of instant fashion, throwaway fashion. >> but what if i told you these

shopping habits have major repercussions, not just here at home, but also around the world. from production to purchase to where our clothes go when we're done with them, a long polluting journey that most of us are a part of. the average american buys 16 new items of clothing every three months. i've been on my own mission to do my part. starting tomorrow for 90 days, i won't be any new clothes. >> if you do the no new clothes challenge, you're saving almost 10 pounds in waste. >> reporter: back in the early '90s, americans bought 40 garments per year. today it's closer to 70, and only a fraction of that actually gets reused. and then that bag often gets kind of blindly donated at a bin or a site like this. but the majority of the clothing that goes in there is not being resold or used here in the united states. >> the volume is too high. there is no place for these garments to go. clothing has the same carbon emissions as the aviation sector. >> reporter: the u.s. sends away more used clothing than any

other country in the world. but there are companies and individuals starting to look at this problem and come up with solutions. >> globally, we grow about 85% of textiles into landfills. what that means particularly for the united states, it's about 112 pounds per person per year of clothing, accessories and home goods that go into the landfill. >> reporter: among them trashy, a textile takeback business that claims to be more transparent. in my closet, it's not just a donation pile. it has towels, old socks, underwear, and you take it all? >> we take almost everything. we'll take your old sports bra. we'll take leggings. we'll take worn jeans. and that is the place we process it. >> good morning. >> reporter: i brought my own bag of used clothes to see how the process works. >> when we talk about sorting and grading, that really is the process for figuring out what's in your bag, what has value, where it can go.

>> reporter: trashy then figures out where your clothe can be reused for a price, they cost $20. you receive what we call trashy cash. and that's our reward system. a $20 bag, you get $30 back in trashy catch. >> reporter: partnerships with many grands from regal cinemas to lululemon. >> not just from clothing. you don't want to be the feedback loop that says go buy more. >> if that's what you want to do, the option is there. that's the reality of everybody's lives. but we like the idea you can cross pollinate and spend it on travel or an experience. >> reporter: after the clothes are sorted, they leave this warehouse in el paso, texas. and cross the border into ciudad juarez mexico, where the clothes get further processed and ultimately shipped internationally. >> about 60% to north america and central america. then we provide about 20% to eastern europe, 10% to asia.

and then it's a smattering of other countries into south america as well. >> reporter: trashy says they partner with this facility to keep their clothing out of landfills. they claim each of their bags prevents 15 pounds of clothing from ending up in them. >> for the best of our ability, nothing ends up in a landfill. >> reporter: this remote area in the atacama desert in northern chile is where many of our used clothes go to die. chile is the largest importer of used clothing in latin america, and the fourth largest in the world. the sandy dunes transformed into an illegal dumping ground. at one point so big, it was visible from space. up to 60,000 tons of clothing get dumped here every year. now through frequent burning and burying, that massive pile has shrunk. janet guzman ormenio lives near the landfills.

she says she is worried that the smoke from all that burning is making her daughter sick. >> reporter: the clothes first arrive in the nearby port city of ikike, where barges from all over the world show up. . >> reporter: jose miguel carvajal is the governor of the region. he says that the dumping problem started about a decade ago. the governor says that the lack of proper oversight and accountability from the higher levels of government has exacerbated the problem.

>> reporter: we reached out to chile's ministry of environment and did not receive a response. some of the folks that live there have turned the overflow of used clothing into a business opportunity, like in this open air market. some clothing even seen with tags still on. >> maria fernando is an artisan trying to make beauty from these ashes. taking advantage of the seemingly endless supply of free material right at her doorstep.

>> maria takes 15 to 20 pairs a jean every time she visits the landfills. her boutique in ikike shows off all her upcycled goods. >> reporter: large scale problems like these call for large scale solutions. experts say legislation can be a start. in washington, the bipartisan america's act was introduced last month to provide financial incentive to companies that reuse materials. in one of the world's fashion

capitals, the fashion act, a new york state bill aiming to bring more transparency to the industry. big-name celebrities like leonardo dicaprio, jane fonda, and angelina jolie are behind it. >> fashion needs basic guardrails in place so that the balance of growth is balanced out with the needs of the planet. >> reporter: the proposed law would require the biggest clothing sellers to disclose their environmental social due diligence policies, or face fines. >> there is also a transparency issue in the back end? >> yeah. so it's an other opaque system. the problem is the volume. >> reporter: but there are some things you can do too. if you're talking to an individual, what is the most powerful choice they can make to change their relationship with fashion? >> one from a personal purchasing standpoint is how many times we're wearing that garment. and so it's an invitation to love your clothes and wear them more. and then second, we are people who have a voice with our

policymakers to say we want this piece of legislation passed. we need to have basic rules in place so that we can have a system that is going to thrive today, tomorrow, and in the future. >> byron: our thanks to ginger. you can catch more of our power of us series throughout this week on abc. when we return, what happened today in court during the first ever criminal trial of a u.s. president. type 2 diabetes? discover the ozempic® tri-zone. ♪ ♪ i got the power of 3. i lowered my a1c, cv risk, and lost some weight. in studies, the majority of people reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. i'm under 7. ozempic® lowers the risk of major cardiovascular events such as stroke, heart attack, or death in adults also with known heart disease. i'm lowering my risk. adults lost up to 14 pounds. i lost some weight. ozempic® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. don't share needles or pens, or reuse needles. don't take ozempic® if you or your family ever had

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proceedings are under way in former president trump's hush money trial. here is action's senior investigative correspondent aar aaron cat turski. >> reporter: donald trump walking into a courtroom today for the first time. >> it's a very sad day in america. >> reporter: with trump slouching in a seat and sometimes closing his eyes, the prosecutor began his opening statement charging trump orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election. jurors listening intently, some taking notes as the prosecutor laid out his case accusing trump of falsifying business records to disguise a $130,000 hush payment to porn star stormy daniels days before the election so voters wouldn't find out about her claim of an affair. at the time trump was under pressure. news had just broken of the "access hollywood" tape, trump caught on camera bragging about groping women. the prosecutor today quoting trump's own words to the jury. >> when you're a star, they let you do it. you can do anything.

>> reporter: "you can do anything" the prosecutor slowly reciting to the jury. prosecutors say the tape's impact was explosive, and trump and his campaign were deeply concerned. so when trump learned stormy daniels was shopping a story of their alleged liaison, prosecutors say he was adamant it not come out, fearing it could have been devastating to the campaign. prosecutors allege trump's alleged fixer michael cohen paid daniels off and agreed to cook the books so when trump reimbursed him it appeared as legal bills. prosecutors allege it was election fraud, pure and simple. in his opening statement, defense attorney todd blanche insisting president trump is innocent. "president trump did not commit any crimes." "i have a sfopoiler alert, ther is nothing wrong with trying to influence an election. it's called democracy. there is nothing wrong with entering a nondisclosure. he said trump was unaware of any effort to camouflage the payment

to daniels as any expense and called michael cohen has an obsession of getting trump. he cannot be trusted. but prosecutors insist the alleged criminal conspiracy to protect trump involved others, including their first witness, david pecker, the former "national enquirer" publisher who once called trump a personal friend. as pecker took the stand, trump leaned forward, arms crossed, an angry look on his face. pecker has acknowledged buying negative stories about the candidate only the bury them, a practice known as catch and kill. on the stand, pecker was blunt. we used checkbook journalism. we paid for stories. he is testifying under a subpoena, having cut a deal with prosecutors to avoid charges himself. he was only the stand a few minutes today, but he'll be back tomorrow. leaving court, trump, who denies the affair with daniels, tried to downplay the case against him. >> it's a case as to bookkeeping, which is a very minor thing in appearance of the law. >> our thanks to aaron. joining me now is abc news

producer john. first thing we heard today from david pecker, the first witness for the prosecution. why is he so important? >> he is the guy that was a part of this scheme with donald trump and michael cohen, catch and kill. so they had a deal, the three of them. when a negative story was heard about, rumored about donald trump, david pecker would catch it, pay the person off and kill it, make the story go away. he is the one, byron, that multiple times would lean in to that friendship with donald trump. and donald trump would say to david pecker, help me make these things go away. what prosecutors are going to show is david pecker, donald trump and michael cohen, stormy daniels, which this case is focused on this, was not the only time. this was an ongoing relationship they had to basically protect donald trump. >> byron: and speaking of michael cohen, if you listen to the defense's opening argument, you would have thought michael cohen was the person on trial. why is he so central to the case? >> he is the central figure to this case. none of this would have happened if michael cohen robert mueller

hadn't spoken years ago. it's the reason it's coming to fruition because michael cohen at one point has said in the past he would take a bullet for donald trump. he described himself as donald trump's pit bull that pit bull has flipped on donald trump. if michael cohen had never said anything to prosecutors years ago, none of this would have ever happened. this was donald trump's fixer, byron. this was the guy that when the situations like this would happen, michael cohen would make them go away. it's all because of him that donald trump's in court. >> in laymen's convicted liar. this guy has lied a lot but you can believe him here. >> they owned it in opening statements. we know michael cohen has gone to jail. we know he did this. he know he has lived for donald trump. but here is the thing. it still happened. he still did it. and now he is speaking the truth. he's got the records to back it up. and when he gets on that stand, not only are prosecutors going to have to deal with that, as soon as he is done on direct

examination, you know based on the statements in court today, donald trump's team is going to do everything they can to tear him down. >> byron: as it relates to mr. trump, this is a man who has been in control of most spaces most of his adult life. you know him well. how difficult is 80 for him to sit in the courtroom in silence? >> the struggle is real. you saw his body language in court today. he is passing notes. our olivia ruben was in court. he shook his head repeatedly. this is donald trump under somebody else's direction. who would have ever thought it took 70 plus years for somebody to tell donald trump to sit down. he has to listen. and this is just day one. donald trump has to get his behavior under control, because here is the thing, byron. it's not just me, you and the judge and others watching it, it's the jury. and body language at the end of the day as we all know from covering trials tells a lot. >> john santucci, always welcome on "nightline." glad to have you. i'm sure we'll talk again during this trial. >> thank you, byron. when we come back, cher now slated to join the rock & roll

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