Charity doorstep collection

wild666

My mother used their bags for rubbish in pedal bins she had a draw full of them

LittleUn57

@LadyDee I'm so sorry you felt the Salvation Army weren't interested in your donation. I suspect the bags you received were a scam and the phone number on the bags may have been the scammer too. I don't think the Salvation Army have doorstep collections for clothes. They have a huge network of charity clothes bins instead, where they are collected weekly. I know someone who used to run one of their charity shops and understand that everything they receive goes to good use. If it can't be sold to raise money for their work, then it is sent for fibre reclamation. Nothing is wasted. 

George_Michael

LittleUn57 said:

I don't think the Salvation Army have doorstep collections for clothes. 

http://www.satradingco.org/donating

We run one of the largest clothing collection schemes in the UK, which includes thousands of donation banks and a household door-to-door collection service.

Manxman_in_exile

Just to add to this zombie thread... 

...We sorted out our "study" (aka the back bedroom) a couple of weeks ago and identified about 120 books we wanted to dispose of.  Rang around a couple of charities and the BHF were most helpful and arranged a doorstep collection consisting of eight bin bags full of books.  They were really good and although they could only give me a collection date two weeks in advance, the driver picked them up bang on time with no hassle.   (Only possible problem was that at the moment they have a maximum number of bags per pickup of ten, but I suspect that's not an issue for most donors).

Apart from that, anything to do with charities that comes through our letterbox goes straight in the bin...

Spank

Manxman_in_exile said:

Apart from that, anything to do with charities that comes through our letterbox goes straight in the bin... 

That's wasteful, those bags are great for shredded paper

elle_may

elle_may said:

I take the good ones to our local charity shop and fill the bags with the crap ones you can't resell. I was getting fed up with vans not from the charities collecting them first.

I do exactly the same, good stuff to the charity shops  as you don't know who are collecting the bags A few put a thanks card through door but a lot get picked up by vans  with no logo on them.

Day_Of_The_Doris

Spank said:

Manxman_in_exile said:

Apart from that, anything to do with charities that comes through our letterbox goes straight in the bin... 

That's wasteful, those bags are great for shredded paper

But what can you do with them once they are full?
As they are plastic bags, they shouldn't be used to put the shredded paper into a recycling bin so you would have to empty the paper into the bin then dispose of the bag.

Spank

Nope, it gets collected with all the other recycling.

Day_Of_The_Doris

Spank said:

Nope, it gets collected with all the other recycling.

Do you have a separate collection for bagged recycling rather than the whole lot going into a "green" bin?
If so then what you are doing is fine.
However, where I live, the council will only collect bags of clothing and used electrical goods. Everything else has to go into the recycling bin and this shouldn't contain any plastic bags.

Spank

Three boxes in total. One box for plastic, metal & one for glass & one for paper & cardboard. We also get a green wheelie bin for garden waste. Nothing for Clothes or Electricals.