Rubbish in clothes bins costs charity €24k a year

The Society of St Vincent de Paul is spending €2,000 a month disposing of rubbish dumped in its clothing donation bins — including the remains of dead animals.

Brendan Dempsey of the SVP said the charity has noticed an increase in the amount of rubbish dumped in the clothes bins, and said that this waste in turn spoils the clothes which had been donated for a good cause.

“The clothes are good, but we’re getting quite a bit of rubbish in the last few years. You’d get potato peels, egg shells, babies’ nappies,” Mr Dempsey told Neil Prendeville on Cork’s Red FM.