Those plastic charity bags!

ben500

Don't make the mistake of leaving them on your doorstep they just replicate faster than Japanese knotweed.

mountainofdebt

The charities will be paying the people who drop off and collect the bags regardless of whether the bags are collected full or empty........their fee is based on the number of bags delivered.

bubblegumcola

i use these bags as bin bags as well. I have complained to Trading Standards about the many dubious ones which drop quietly through my letterbox. I phoned them today about a leaflet for charity collection, lots of dodgy stuff about this particular one online. I absolutely hate these things, there should be more that Trading Standards could do to stop them collecting.

tandraig

i too see them as free bin liners - so thanks dodgy charities!

VickyA_2

The other week we had one from the RNLI. I didn't fill my bag, as I'd already filled a couple the previous week for the British Heart Foundation..... anyway, those on my road who HAD filled these RNLI bags still had them waiting for collection a couple of days later. They had to send them elsewhere as no one had picked them up.

hundredk

They are great for emptying my shredder because they are big enough to fit over the top so I can tip it upside down:j.

gould300

Round here it seems the 'dodgy' collectors just shove a leaflet through without a bag, expecting you to provide you own. Nuts to that.

The 'possibly more legit but I'm still not convinced' ones that provide bags are used for bin liners 99% of the time unless we've got something to give to charity.

ShaneUK

What get's me with a lot of them is when you read the small print that comes with the bags. A lot of the time the donations are sold by the ton as "rags" and the charity gets a pittance for it. They would get a lot more money if it was taken to the shop itself so that they can sell it.

knightstyle

Our house was empty for a couple of months and we counted 26 bags left for us to fill. How can we generate that much stuff? We had a note saying no circulars but the people who drop these off think this does not apply to them.

BFG_2

Totally wild west, scammers every single one of them!!!!!!!!!!!!

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