5:18pm Friday 12th March 2010
By Glenda Elder
Walk down our road and in addition to the usual school litter, you’ll see something even sadder.
That’s right: the unused charity bags. Not because our neighbours are mean. Simply because, for some reason, we receive quite a glut of these in our road and you just can’t fill them all.
On the subject of filling, there’s a strong chance that these wasted bags will literally go to landfill.
So why don’t the charities – often the large well known ones - pick them up? I’m sure they cost enough to produce and are fairly generic? Aren’t the collectors able to collect the unused bags?
In addition to which, if they don’t who will? The council litter pickers (a rare sight) or do we have to do it ourselves?
Fundraising for charities is a noble and often difficult task. If I was to see money I had either donated or helped raise, so carelessly thrown away, literally, I’d think twice about donating again regardless of how worthy the cause.
So come on, NSPCC (on this occasion), pick them up! My neighbour and I have both left ours out and they have now blown into the garden. Oh, and I think I’ll donate my next bag of items not to your shop but to another charity which might be more careful with the funds they have raised from the sales of my donated items.
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