donation bins

[darkoshi]

There are some clothing donation bins around town marked with "secondliferecycling.com". That website, however, says "Site Under Maintenance". It's apparently been that way for a long time, as Google's search results display the same text for the site.

The only info I found on the organization that owns the bins is the following.

Local Charities Concerned About For-Profit Clothing Donation Bins

Collection bins are popping up all over town. Some are red, some are green and some are blue. For most people, it's an easy way to drop off old clothing so it can go to charity.
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And even though some of the donation boxes do support charities, most of the ones we spotted came from for-profit companies, like "Better World Recycling" and "Second Life Recycling". According to Georgia state law, those collection bins are supposed to let people know they are not a charity, but we found dozens across town that weren't labeled that way.

Comments

[passionrlsusall.livejournal.com]

ugh, that sucks :(

[darkoshi]

Yeah. I mean, I'm not against for-profit collections, as long as the boxes are clearly labelled as such. It's better than items getting thrown in the trash. And if they are really collecting clothing to use for scrap material in a recycling sense, that might provide a good way of disposing of clothing which is too worn out (full of holes, etc) to give to charity.

[passionrlsusall.livejournal.com]

Completely agree.