Collection bags

You know, the ones that charities drop through letterboxes.

As do, more often it seems, commercial companies.

I've got one sitting herre in front of me: it clearly states it's a
commercial company but the whole thing is worded in a rather
mealy-mouthed way.

Some snippets:

"... is a commercial company who helped the disabled and will do so in
future"

"Reg. No. 05618823" (Note not "Registered Charity No...")




I have no objection at all to companies making a profit out of
recycling unwanted stuff per se, and the colection makes it easy, but
I'm a bit sceptical about the fact that they're kind of jumping on the
charity bandwagon as a ploy to obtain goods, especially as they may
take goods that would otherwise go to genuine charities.

Having said that, an efficient commercial company with charitable
links *might* actually be quite effective from the charities' POV,
though it feels wrong, somehow.

What says the Fount?

 

Well known scam using obfuscated wording to con people to give them
clothes which get sold in eastern europe.

 

Fill it with utter crap and worthless stuff: use it as a free rubbish
take-away service.

 

Dunno, any bags that come through my letterbox get shoved straight back
out again, & any spare clothes I have always end up in the garage as
rags.

 

Our council doesn't take glass bottles, so we have to take those to the
bottle banks ourselves.

And nearly all of our bottle banks & recycling areas have bins for
clothes, shoes, books, CDs etc etc and I go often enough that I keep
the bags that come through door and use them to bag up the stuff I'll
be taking myself anyway.

 

Left out for charity, whether (occasionally) full or empty (for
re-use).

Used as bin-liners. To me they're the same as commercial "charity"
Xmas cards which give 0.01p to charity.

 

Handy website that, good link, thanks.

At our school we have a twice yearly collection by a company that gives
out bags to be filled with clothes, that are recycled to 3rd world and
underdeveloped countries (I think it says). The company pays school an
amount for this to school funds, something like 40p per kilo which
seems a reasonable way to do things, but they do also specifically
state they are a company, not a charity. Rags R us I think they're
called ....

 

I make good use of it. The ASA are one of the few agencies that do
appear to have teeth, & don't need n thousand complaints before they
act. So it's a good way to 'punish' companies that piss you off,
especially if it means they have to spend loads on changing their
advertising material.

 

I find they're a great source of binbags.

 

We get them too and they go straight in the bin. The proper charity bags
generally get something put in them, but there's only so much tat one house
can hold.

 

You've not been to TOG's, have you?

 

Ever diminishing returns. Innit.
If you want to help folk give money to the Sally Army or a similar org who
don't spend it on themselves or 100k a year Chief Execs and go just about
everywhere in the world that people need help.
Though I did just give a huge pile of stuff and new unused household type
things to the local Bernardos shop.

 

Exactly. A couple of local animal rescue centres in my case.

 

Or mine.

 

They go in the bid immediately. There are so many scams associated
with clothes collections that I cannot be bothered to spare an ounce
of brain power trying to discriminate between all the begging offers /
flyers etc that come through the letterbox. They should all be
banned.

 

Indeed. The bags are just perfect for use when drowning kittens.

 

+1

 

Workshop rubbish sacks for me. We get one of these bags every week or
so. Most of them are from limited companies, after something for
nothing, but ffs, they should realise they're on a hiding to nothing
when they're the 123rd bag to drop in 150 weeks.

 

If you search the adjudications for "John Lewis" you'll find my
complaint against them which was upheld on 28 May 2008. There was just
one other complainant in that case (who may have been Ben Goodacre, as
I informed him of the questionable "Bad Science" ad).

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What sort of condition do you consider "too knackered" to leave
out for collection? On the rare occasions that it rains heavily in London
I often discover that my shoes have just developed a hole in the sole
(case in point, last week -- and I'd only bought that pair in January!),
so I've many pairs of shoes which I don't wish to use due to their
leakiness. Are they likely to be re-usable by poor African farmers or
summat, especially somewhere it doesn't rain much? Or should I just put
them in the landfill bag like I did to two pair last night?

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Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".