Charity bags for clothes and shoes
Sep. 10th, 2015 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dimity_blueI got yet another of those "donate your clothes to help out x charity!" bags through my door the other day. The charity is usually NSPCC, child cancer, or Make a Wish, or something along those lines.
I was curious, so I read the fine print at the bottom of the envelope. Have you ever read it?
The bags aren't collected by the charities themselves. Instead, they're collected by a company who (so far as I can work out) sell the clothes and shoes. But they promise to donate "at least £75 for every tonne of shoes or clothes collected".
A tonne = 2204 pounds.
I can't imagine how much profit that company makes.
I was curious, so I read the fine print at the bottom of the envelope. Have you ever read it?
The bags aren't collected by the charities themselves. Instead, they're collected by a company who (so far as I can work out) sell the clothes and shoes. But they promise to donate "at least £75 for every tonne of shoes or clothes collected".
A tonne = 2204 pounds.
I can't imagine how much profit that company makes.