Saw the most stupid thing yesterday on way to our Click and Collect at the supermarket. By the entrance is a row of recycling bins for various stuff and I was just about to note that it was remarkably tidy the area was, when in the corner I noticed the clothes bin.
It was full to bursting.
It was surrounded by overflowing plastic sacks.
It was raining.
What a waste!!! Well done for spending lockdown sorting out your wardrobe. BUT
If you were going to recycle clothes and had it all bagged up did you not realise that no one was working on collections just yet and why not just keep it in the car till you found an empty bin! And that Charity shops when they reopen will be desperate for donations directly into their get funds going again.
Later I turned on the Volunteers Facebook page and found in a post that people were donating new and nearly new duvet covers to make scrub launder bags for NHS by the hundred. People have obviously spending lockdown sorting out their Linen cupboards too. Well, at least they were not sitting next to overfull recycling bin with the clothes!
At least I did not pass any fly tipping on that journey which was a relief!
My neighbour had a white van man remove lots of rubbish he had sorted. Hubby and I watched as he filled the van then we both turned to each other and said 'where do you think he's going to take that lot?' I now the local tip is still close. Does make you think.
ReplyDeleteI would have taken the reg number and kept an eye on local news/social media for fly tipping!
DeleteJust had a thought re clothes for charity - would the virus mean those donations are potentially "dangerous"?
I think the virus dies after so long. I expect they'll have to have PPE while dealing. Goodness knows how long it will be before clothes stores etc are open.
DeleteBetter be soon 0 I need some knickers and socks!
DeleteWe're very lucky we don't have actual lockdown, only restrictions on meetings (only under 10ppl allowed, restaurants closed) and people mostly following recommendations.
ReplyDeleteTips are open, recycling is considered essential. Local waste management organisation has closed tips on satudays (due to lack of workers) and they don't do collection tours where you can take small amouts of dangerous waste for free(like dirty oil, old car batteries, paints, pestisides etc).
I don't know if H&M is accepting used clothes, but everything else seems to go on as usual.
But it is flytipping season, people are emptying their garages and trying to dump those things in to the woods. We look suspisiously at every strange car, and sometimes we took photos, just in case. But this is what we do every year, stupidity doesn't exist only on abnormal times.
Its dead after 72 hours on surfaces , so they tell us
ReplyDeletePity they cannot find a way for it to glow orange they we could see it!
DeleteWe were all told here that second hand stores were not taking donations, and that we should store things in a corner of our basements until they were open once again. I noticed the bins were taped shut as well with printed notices on them.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
That would be sensible. I suppose some people just have not got the room. Why have so many clothes in the first place?
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