Charity bags

[Harry Bloomfield]

I don't know if we are typical, but we might get two or three charity bags, pushed through our letter box each week, this despite a notice on my garden gate, saying we don't want take-away menus, chuggers, or these bags. We do sometimes fill them, but 99% of them, go straight in the recycle bin, unopened - what a massive waste of resources these bags are, plus the waste of shoe leather delivering them, plus the fuel used in collecting them, even if they are filled.

 

[Fred Blogs]

All of ours become bin bags although we haven't had many in the last few months. Maybe the charity shops have stopped delivering them to our area because we are a load of old curmudgeonly so in so's here. We do take stuff to the charity shops of which there are numerous ones in our town but mostly we wear our stuff out so it goes into the charity bags that we use as bin bags.

 

[Ihavenojob]

All of ours become bin bags

Same here.

 

[big-all]

as long as you are aware they are all commercial companies that pay perhaps 8-15% off the rag value to use the charity logo [read the small print on the bags]
if you want all the value to go to the charity take it to a charity shop
and yes most will still finish up as rags eventually but the odd decent item thats sorted out its full value will go to a supporter when shopping and perhaps 10 times the rag value to the actual charity

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

as long as you are aware they are all commercial companies that pay perhaps 8-15% off the rag value to use the charity logo [read the small print on the bags]
if you want all the value to go to the charity take it to a charity shop
and yes most will still finish up as rags eventually but the odd decent item thats sorted out its full value will go to a supporter when shopping and perhaps 10 times the rag value to the actual charity

No, I didn't know that, but as said we very rarely use them, mostly we do take stuff direct to the shops.

 

[securespark]

Same here.

Me too.

We get 2-3 per week and we keep them for kitchen swing bin liners.

 

[Northman]

If you look them up on Companies House and Charity Commission websites, you'd be amazed how often the collecting companies are linked to Lithuanian nationals, and the charities involved are small, non-significant players.

 

[big-all]

as an aside
i have a "bag for life" and for perhaps 7 or 8 years old i have collected perhaps 150 charity bags maybe more in it but i cant be arrsed to count how many but awaiting a point it gets sent for recycling to a company for no other reason that i dont like binning them and sending to landfill -----and yes i realize they will finish up there regardless off route chosen but at least i tried to find a solution------not

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

If you look them up on Companies House and Charity Commission websites, you'd be amazed how often the collecting companies are linked to Lithuanian nationals, and the charities involved are small, non-significant players.

Yep, there is big easy money to be made by thinking up a suitable charity, that's why there are so many in the UK.

 

[Ihavenojob]

i have a "bag for life

Many do, but what happened to the good old "for better or worse "? Much preferred that.

 

[Vinty]

I remember the time when an old guy used come round the streets on a horse and cart.
He used to shout "cups and balloons" at the kids in the street, the kids would run into their house and pester their mums to give the ragman some old rags and in return he would give the housewife new cups and balloons for the kids.
That was proper recycling.