Always baffles me that someone will drive to a donation bin and go to the effort of dumping their rubbish next to it, instead of just putting it in their red bin or doing a quick tip run.

Posted by Rlawya24

20 Comments

  1. Some people are just so fuxking scummy, they should have cameras at these bins and fine anyone doing this with littering or public nuisance. It’s so disrespectful.

  2. GenericUrbanist on

    Just speculation, but I’d guess that a crack head stole/fished that out of the donation bins to see if there’s anything valuable it can pawn off

  3. They may have dumped it next to the bin or these bags might have been pulled out of the bins by the people who rifle through them and grab anything good so they can resell it themselves. They then leave the rest strewn around. They are why we can’t have nice things.

  4. Same image an FB post I saw claiming laziness. You’ve clearly never seen the end result of people bin diving.

  5. ItsMyRecurringDream on

    There are also the scabs who pull the bundles out of the bins to look through the contents, picking out the items they think they can sell at the weekend markets and on facebook marketplace, and leaving a mess behind…

  6. People use them as rubbish bins. You ever walked past one? The smell. Horrendous.

    Take your shit to a store and donate in person. Seen too many crackheads climbing into these.

  7. Yeah unfortunately society is on a race to the bottom
    The other day there used to be some donation bins at the local shopping centre and they got removed and people still leave stuff there where the bins used to be but then people also leave shit on the footpath all the way down the road thinking that someone’s going to remove it
    Society is getting lazier and lazier people also can’t put trollies back in there trolley bays at supermarkets And also leave them full of rubbish (I went to move one the other day and some asshole had left though paper cup full of coke in there and when it fell over it splashed everywhere when I went to move the trolley 🤬)

  8. With the amount of overhead admin costs these second-hand places get (Salvos, Red Cross, St Vinnies etc) their CEO should keep the store open over the quiet times to accept the donations.

    Sucks and for the people that do clean it up but I have a very low threshold for these places anymore.

  9. hopalongsmiles on

    My flatmate and I did a ‘spring clean’ over the holidays, and dropped off our clothes at Salvos. She thanked us, that the items weren’t shein items but quality clothes.

  10. It looks like the bins are full.

    I’d be more upset there isn’t enough logistical support to keep the bins emptied frequently enough.

    I would assume something cynical about these donation bins. It doesn’t give me the impression they’re going to lifeline.