Lifeline bins for charitable donations
Posted by: Nefertari
1st Feb 2018 03:10pm
The other day I decided to take a bag full of clothes down to the local Lifeline bins which are only a couple of hundred metres down the road. I don't drive and the bag was fairly heavy so I was more than a bit irate when I got there just to find all 4 big bins were full to overflowing and I was left wondering just how often those bins are emptied. Charities are always crying out for more donations yet they don't seem to be too concerned about making space available for donations...has anyone else had this type of problem?
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Mona31584416
I used to live near a Vinnies Charity shop and their donations bins were emptied atleast once a week by their staff, and I myself have donated a couple of items such as clothing and furniture.
michelle31630540
Yes I agree...when we moved interstate I called one of the more well know charities to come and get all our furniture ect from our house as I was moving it by myself, and they told me they would only take it if I dropped it all off...I didn't have to time or the energy so they missed out....It was all good stuff too.
Kassandra31376538
Many times when I lived in QLD that we packed the car to take ours and sometimes friends stuff off to give to charity to find not o my the bins full but bags and boxes sitting around on the grounds potentionally going to waste it weather damaged. Don't put the designated areas for bins unless you put into place a system to have them all collected a timely fashion
jobgenie63
They definitely need to review their method of collection. I have stopped leaving things near the bins when they are overflowing, as in our neighbourhood, people steal the items and sell.them online. Peoplevaren't honest anymore in general, so they need a more secure method so things can go to rhe people who need it most.
Lilibet
I lived near a Vinnies bin which was emptied every week day. On weekends the bin became the local dumping place for all kinds of goods including broken items and rubbish. These things spilled onto the footpath creating a blocking and tripping hazard. On Sunday nights the local scavengers would go through the goods and take away anything they could onsell. Eventually the bin was removed because it cost the charity too much money to keep it emptied and to get rid of all the unusable items which had been placed there.
Dan31314618
I have volunteered at Vinnies before, and the large bins outside the shop we would empty every morning that the shop was open, and collect from smaller bins at the front of the shop throughout the day. I am unsure about more isolated bins, but I know my local was closed for 2 weeks over Christmas/ new year.