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.