Scam of door-to-door charity donation bags

I haven't had any of these since Lockdown 2020! One thing I was told was check the bag label. If it has the name then the Ltd company sign, it is just a company collecting or indeed perhaps a scam. If it says Registered Charity then the registration number of said charity, then that is genuine.

I am aware but many don't realise.
I only put in stuff that charity shops wouldn't want.

Oh we always use the bags too nanasam. Usually as bin liners.

I never use the ‘charity’ bags as I don’t like that they give so little to the charity they claim to support. I am able to park close by to my favoured charity shop so that is where I go.
Without transport woukd make it too hard it to take heavy bags on public transport so would understand using the bags.

Nobody ever comes to pick them up again, here.
I don't mind in the least who benefits from the stuff.

I turn the bags inside out and use them for our plastic recycling!

I haven't had a charity bag shoved through my door since before the first lockdown and I agree that they are an easy way to get rid of unwanted items especially if you don't have a car like me!
I try to be careful which bags I donate to - there have been some circulated where the charity doesn't even exist and those collecting on behalf of certain charities only sell the items on to todays equivilant of a rag man !
Where possible, I use the bags and when I go to the supermarket with my son in his car, put the bags, whichever denomination in the clothing bins that are provided , usually Salvation Army or the local fire service rather than an unknown charity.

I put a sign up on our front door no charity bags. They were being put through the letter box at six o clock in the morning. This is not acceptable especially at the time we had two dogs howling like wolves.

I am aware of that but do use them as it's not easy to carry stuff to a charity shop - I don't drive. I am more concerned to avoid wastefully filling landfill with decent clothes. If people in poorer countries can buy quality clothes cheaply because of these collections, I don't see a problem.

Quizzer

I receive a door-to-door charity donation bag almost every week. How many people realise that almost none of these actually come from the advertised charity. They are circulated by companies that collect clothing etc for sale, often abroad, and give a small donation to the charity.
The bag I received today says that it donates £105 per tonne to the air ambulance.
Working on a very rough average of 500g weight per article of donated clothing, that means that the charity would get a magnificent donation of approximately 5p per item!
If these items were donated to local charity shops they would be sold for realistic prices, all of which would go to the charity.
It’s a scam!

In my experience of volunteering in a couple of charity shops, only a small percentage of items received are actually sold in the shop, most are rejected and go in the waste collection. Donations can be rejected if they are out of season as small shops cannot store many things, dirty, too worn, old fashioned or with missing buttons/zips etc.

One of the shops only accepts donations if dropped off in person so that they can be checked first.

Some people cannot get to a charity shop so it is better than putting it into general rubbish.

Charity shops in my area only take donations on certain days and times which can be awkward, they also do not sell supermarket clothes so they just get sold for textile recycling which possibly makes less than the bags you mention.

I think for some it's a convenient way of getting rid of unwanted items and that's more important than the amount received by any charity.