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Help keep your op shop donations out of landfill
The op shops' own guide to what helps and what costs them.
5-10 minutes
Why This Matters
Donations op shops can’t use cost their charities millions in landfill fees each year. And about half the people who leave goods outside a shop or donation bin don’t realise those items often get binned.
Before your next clear-out
Not everything donated to an op shop makes it to the shelf. Some of it ends up as rubbish the charity has to pay to get rid of. A few small habits on your end decide which way your donation goes.
One thing the guide won’t tell you: if it still works but you doubt the op shop could sell it, hand it straight to someone who could use it instead.
How to do this
- Open Charitable Reuse Australia’s donation guide.
- Read the what, when and how.
- Note the one rule you didn’t know. Done.
Source for the half-don’t-realise finding: NSW EPA, Please take responsibility for your donations.
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