A charity shop that has been the site of repeated fly-tipping has slammed litterers for “costing them money”, with the organisation having to use donations meant for life-ending care to cover the cost of disposing of the waste.
The Bude branch of Cornwall Hospice Care Shops has most recently seen six bags of litter dumped by the entrance.
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The bags, that were dumped outside of opening times, contained no items that could be donated. The black sacks were filled with food waste, recycling, and general rubbish.
Tamsin Thomas, Head of PR and Communications at Cornwall Hospice Care, told GB News that “what we can’t sell, we have to pay to get rid of”.
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The black sacks were filled with food waste, recycling, and general rubbish.
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“Every penny we make should be going to the work we do providing end-of-life hospice care”, she said, instead of paying for fly-tipping to be disposed of.
“Please only donate what you think might be sellable. Because we are a charity and what we can't sell, we've got to pay to get rid of. And that's not fair on the people who genuinely give us money.”
She said that between 25 to 50 per cent of what is donated isn’t of a sellable quality.
Thomas said that the increase in fly-tipping outside shops could be down to people having fewer methods of disposing of their rubbish.
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The Bude branch of Cornwall Hospice Care Shops has most recently seen six bags of litter dumped by the entrance
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“It’s getting harder and harder for people to get rid of household rubbish. So we're starting to see a bit more slipping in with the donations of stuff that we aren't going to be able to sell on.”
Cornwall Council has weekly food waste and fortnightly recycling collections.
Users online reacted to the dumping, with one account calling it “unbelievable” and “unacceptable”.
“We have weekly collections for food waste so don't understand why anyone would do that.”
Others offered advice on how to catch the tippers, telling the shop to install a video door camera, whilst another said: “I'd just move it someone else problem then.”
This comment was met with much resistance, with accounts telling the user it would put them in the “same category” as the fly-tippers.
Fly-tippers have been littering at charity shops up and down the country, leaving items outside the shop when the doors are closed.
One shop in Carlisle said that after a night of rain, the staff turned up to discover bags of items soaked through which meant the “donations” could not be used.
A charity bin used to collect donations for homeless people was repeatedly ransacked by fly-tippers
Cold Hands Warm HeartsThe bags had also been raided by passers-by to see what they could take, the shop said.
Another store in Whitehaven said that they received hoards of wet electrical items, which posed a danger to staff who had to deal with the
Last month, a charity bin used to collect donations for homeless people was forced to close after it was repeatedly ransacked by fly-tippers.
Jamie Lilley, founder of Manchester-based Cold Hands Warm Hearts, was “embarrassed” when he received complaints of litter outside one of his donation bins, which had sprawled onto a disabled car parking space.
Talking about the pub landlord who owns the space, he told GB News: “It was just embarrassing because he did speak to me and said, ‘I really want help but it's now affecting the car park where people come in. It’s been taking up three-quarters of the disabled bay'.”
The contents of the “donations” ranged from stained pillows to condom wrappers, a sight that left Lilley “p***ed off and really angry”. All the items were drenched and had started to smell.
Lilley was told that the bin would be removed thanks to the repeated dumping.
“I’m truly disappointed because this resource was provided to help but people's laziness, and the fact that the bin isn’t even full has led to this unfortunate situation,” he said.
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