'ing Charity Bags

yeah, but even the legit ones are taking the Michael ~ there's a Marie Curie one I get regular on about a 7 ~ 10 day cycle; MC is generally the charity I go to as they looked after both my parents in their last days, I took all their clothes there over multiple trips and now I save up all my DVDs and take them in (when they bother to open the shop that is....), but as I said before, how much stuff do they think we generate? surely a far better idea would be to have people phone them and ask for a bag to be posted, the legit charities could have a stock of freepost envelopes. when you take a bag in, they could give you a replacement to use as and when you needed it.
 
I think part of the trouble is that the returns must be shockingly low now. A while back there was a certain bag collection, when I was at home on holiday. A million different vans went round, with various dubious looking types collecting everything by about 10 am. It got to around 1pm, and the proper van with all the stickers on was going round, and everything had gone. I reckon charity bag "theft" is a massive problem, which needs addressing. I bet less than a 1/4 get back to the charity, and most end up in eastern europe.
 
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Yeah it's like 10 quid per tonne..
For those I put old tatty clothes in no one could wear As in it will probably go in landfill anyway but at least the charity gets something.
Nothing saleable goes in those bags
 
The only way to donate properly to charity is to fly to wherever the good will is meant to go and hand the recipients water / food / supplies / whatever. Between your hands and theirs are the most evil, morally corrupt, greedy, bottom feeding scum on the face of the earth, and yes, I'm including estate agents with that one. These people range from homeless people robbing bins which is a hell of a lot less bad than the rich bar stewards siphoning money off to fuel up their Aston Martins. Charity is all a big scam, every single corner of it, the best thing you can do is minimize your contribution's exposure to it by doing your homework, cutting out as many middle men as possible and avoiding the obvious crap ones.
 
Like most have said here, I think they are great! Saves me money on buying bin bags and they are nice and strong....perfect for the job!
 
I'm simply staggered by the amount of crap I get through my letterbox. Local window cleaners, gym classes, yoga, local takeaways, charity bag things (as OP says).

I just let it mount up and stick it right in the recycling. Such a waste.
 
Shadowness said:
I'm simply staggered by the amount of crap I get through my letterbox. Local window cleaners, gym classes, yoga, local takeaways, charity bag things (as OP says).

I just let it mount up and stick it right in the recycling. Such a waste.
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i use mine as kindling for the garden incinerator. i then use the ash as fertiliser.
 
Shhhhhhh! We use these as free bin liners. We used to use Tesco bags, but the home deliveries are now bag free :mad:. Kind of a pain having to grab individual items out of the Tesco baskets and dump them on the work top while the driver has to wait around. They should start using recycled paper bags, like they do in the US.

Also use junk mail as poop landing pads for my bird cage. The Screwfix deals catalogue pages are the exact right size.
 
Mark A said:
We used to use Tesco bags, but the home deliveries are now bag free :mad:. Kind of a pain having to grab individual items out of the Tesco baskets and dump them on the work top while the driver has to wait around. They should start using recycled paper bags, like they do in the US.
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It's the supermarkets fault that we are in this plastic mess as it's them that la la love all things plastic so no way will they switch to paper as they still have that love affair with plastic. Even if they are cutting down they simply won't replace it with paper.
 
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