Fly tipping outside charity shop

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Aibu to think dumping your old tat outside a chazza shop on a bank holiday weekend is atrocious behaviour?

During lock down in 2020, all shops were closed, it happened every day.

YANBU, very scummy behaviour.

I take things to the charity shop, let them choose what they want, and take away the rest to dispose of myself.

It is bad.

But..chazza shop 🤣🤣

I used to live near one and this drove me mad. Once I saw a single mattress outside the shop! That's not a donation is it? It's someone offloading crap.

Yes it is horrendous, I manage a charity shop and it is a real problem. However it can be reported to the local council and if they can find evidence of who has left the 'donations' they can be prosecuted for fly tipping. I haven't done it yet but colleagues of mine have and it resulted in a successful prosecution .

Mattresses and furniture frequently left at weekends. Its a tiny villahe shop

The worst thing is that the perpetrators will think they've done a good thing!

The shop won't even be able to sell much of that as it's been out in the open to the elements. It will probably all go straight in the bin.
People are thick. They really are.

Poor little old lady who runs the place is going to arrive in the morning and feel overwhelmed

So scummy.

These books will be nice and damp

I called out someone doing it near me. Caused a local argument on social media as the husband tried to slate me saying his wife was doing a good thing donating. Yeah right, in which case take it in while the shop is open. But this was also during lockdown. The stuff was scattered by foxes. It costs charities money to get rid of it. It needs a few prosecutions to get the message through that it is flytipping the same as if it was dumped anywhere else.

Yanbu I saw this the other day outside our charity shop as I walked past in thr morning. The worst thing is it seems like someone or an animal got to it first because all the bags were ripped and clothing strewn all over.

It's cr@ppy behaviour but unfortunately there are some cr@ppy people about...

Need and it costs the charity to dispose of unsaleable items ... we have to pay for our refuse collection and are not allowed to take things to the tip. I am frequently amazed by people who are incredulous that we can't accept their old crap ... someone the other day was genuinely offended when I politely declined to accept his 20+ year old used A4 binder files .... someone else said to me 'these trousers are fine ... just cut the legs off and they will make shorts for people in need' . And don't mention books ... no one wants dog eared crime fiction from the 70s, your old Uni text books unless published in the last 10 years, scribbled and torn children's books ....

@Ragwort actually there are a couple of out of print 70s crime paperbacks I am trying to get hold of 😂.
I love shopping in charity shops and it angers me how people use them as some sort of municipal tip.

I have challenged somebody before.

She just shrugged and said, everyone else does it

I mean, how could you pile more crap on top of an already enormous pile?

Yanbu.

It will be messed with, blow around, get damp. Idiots leave it there. Sorry, but they are. If you can't hand it in properly, save it for another time.

On the flip side, I have stopped donating to charity shops. Everything I have now goes to childrens centres and women refuges. I was unhappy that I would donate a bag of eg kids clothes and shoes in excellent condition, but all they were looking for was the odd designer piece which could get a higher price, then all other pieces were sent to rags when they were perfectly wearable. With the refuges and centres there is much less waste.

I used to live in a town centre. On one street there was lots of charity shops. I'd often see people rummaging through the bags that had been dumped outside the closed shops

They'd take anything half decent and leave the rest strewn across the floor

A charity shop in my friend's town had to close for over a year. People had dumped stuff in the doorway, then someone set fire to it. All caught on CCTV. The building was badly damaged, the cost to the charity was enormous.

I used to volunteer at my local charity shop , and yes , the dumping of stuff outside is a nightmare.That aside I never understand why people happily donate stuff in bin condition , or filthy . You find snotty hankies in pockets , I've found a pair of knickers complete with sanitary towel in the leg of a pair of jeans , and sad , but still grubby , someone's Mum obviously now passed ,a bin bag of clothes , with food down the front , slippers with the backs trodden down also with food on them .
Please , wash and inspect items, if you wouldn't buy it , don't donate it.

Whats even better is when you see people ripping the bags open (usually in the evening) and helping themselves to all the best bits. Selfish beyond words.

I remember seeing the filthiest dog bed on top of a charity shop donation, wtf? Are we getting so used to extract the last bit of use of everything that we cannot longer bin stuff with a clean conscience?