Wednesday just past I was clearing out some cupboards and as I normally do I had a few bags to go to charity. Now as a rule I'll take the bags to the Charity shops - I do a circle donation that way all charities and not just one get something - however this time is was for the Salvation Army. I remembered that they had collection bins in Tesco car park, so i thought that I'd drop the stuff there as it was on the way to my Mother-in-laws and i could then pick up my son. The bins are very big and the SA have signs to tell you how they would like the stuff sorted. That's a sensible thing to do. I tried putting several carrier bags in, two would not fit so that stuff will be going in to a store. I was surprise, on the day, to see that there were a few black bags of items sitting at one of the bins and someone had left a single mattress and a suitcase. What is rather ridiculous and obvious is that the person or persons responsible are just dumping. Baring in mind that the local dump is not that far from Asda and Asda's not far from Tesco. I do have a criticism about the bins, the chutes do not allow for a bulging carrier bag and you would have to use several bags if you have a lot on things, so you can see why people would leave black bags if they didn't known and just couldn't be bothered to take the stuff home again, but this is dumping not providing.
I was at Tesco shopping today and couldn't believe my eyes. The Salvation Army bins were nothing short of disgusting, and the people who left the items behind should be ashamed of themselves. Clothing out of bags lying on the wet ground, now no use to anyone. Why did they waste petrol traveling to Tesco just to dump when they could have just used their wheelie bin and let the council refuge collection dump them instead?
