Inside Asia’s largest cloth slum (shocking😳)

Shop smart and save money with the BuyHatke Chrome Extension - https://e.buyhatke.com/KK Use Price Comparison, Price Drop Alerts, Price Tracking, and more plus get up to 15% exclusive discounts on Dominos. My team spent days inside Panipat's cloth recycling factories - and what we found will change how you think about the clothes you throw away. Every year, the world discards 90 million tons of clothing. A huge chunk of it travels thousands of kilometers and lands in Panipat, Haryana - the world's cloth recycling capital. But behind the inspiring idea of "recycling" is a reality most people never see. What we found: - Workers cutting fabric bare-handed for ₹1-1.5 per garment, earning ₹150-200 on a good day - Shredding units filled with toxic dust and microfiber - workers breathe this for 7-8 hours every day, for years, with no masks - 32 illegal bleaching units dumping chemical waste into canals that flow directly into the Yamuna The blankets on your train. The yarn used by our Army and Air Force. It all starts here, in these factories, made by these hands. This video isn't just about recycling - it's about the people the system is built on but never talks about. You'll meet workers who've given decades of their lives to this industry. You'll see the environmental destruction hidden behind feel-good sustainability claims. And you'll hear from the workers themselves about who really profits. India makes thousands of crores from this industry. The question is at whose cost? Tell me in the comments: what part of this story hit you the hardest? Research doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BuHd1IDRuzA1OmlFOSGKaakKo1wlP7ZD3E060S0Qu6M/edit?tab=t.0 ********** Credits: Host: Kavya DOP: Dheeraj Singh (@ursdheerajsingh) Field Correspondent & Producer: Mamta @mamtareports_) Editors: Jeevan Singh (@jeeone.bora), Ayushi Gupta (@imperfectayushi) Production Lead: Jyotsna Richhariya (@jytsna) ********** Time Stamps: 00:00 - Introduction - Inside cloth dump of India