"PhilC" wrote in message
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The charity I worked for was populated by one or two actually charitable
people but the majority were there to grab as many of the donations as
possible for there own use.
I then took items to a local hospice charity - their central warehouse -
only to find a volunteer emptying bags of paperbacks into a huge wheeled
bin
but not for recycling but for landfill. When I questioned him about this
he
said it was not worth sorting through the hundreds of paperbacks they
received each week! It seems the same fate awaited hundreds of hardback
books also.
If you cannot make use of certain items either refuse them or at least
recycle them

I agree, you have to be careful, sadly.

Mary

PhilC