Dublino Banche di abbigliamento in “disordine” per lo scarico illegale
https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2025/0325/1503912-dublin-clothing-banks-in-disarray-over-illegal-dumping/
di underover69
Dublino Banche di abbigliamento in “disordine” per lo scarico illegale
https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2025/0325/1503912-dublin-clothing-banks-in-disarray-over-illegal-dumping/
di underover69
16 commenti
How fucking lazy do you have to be to not just bring the stuff back home and go another day? It’s not like the clothes will stink up your place
We always try to recycle our clothes, but most of the time the banks are full to bursting. Now, we take the stuff back home (keep it in the car boot) til we find somewhere empty but had noticed how seldom any of these banks in our area are empty.
It’s even not that unusual to find the bins are empty and people have just dump the stuff without trying. I’ve found ones where it literally took a couple of seconds to push the stuff properly in and there was loads of room.
Maybe we need a system where clothing shops can also recycle clothes. Like the way electrical appliance retailers are recycling drop off points.
Just an idea.
I confess that if I make the effort to go to a bank and it’s full, I’ll leave them there anyway. I don’t drive and it’s often very laborious to drag back what I took. I also don’t have much room in my rented accommodation.
It’s a failure of the collection service. If you are going to have one, it should be cleared regularly. It’s obviously not.
Making people do the extra work isn’t a viable option. Anyone that’s studied user experience design will know that making the end user go through extra hoops to engage with your product of service is suicide. They need to do better.
Seems like this is just an indication for why private management of all this stuff doesn’t work. There’s tons of illegal dumping of all kinds of trash and waste. A public collection system that is tax funded would go a long way to reducing dumping.
Not even just the bins. Local SVdP regularly has bags of clothes and household items dumbed outside the door when I pass of a morning before it’s open. 90% unsaleable from what I’ve seen of it.
So every household are going to get a new clothing recycling bin from Panda, for as little as €20 a month.
Empty them more often they’re always full
These bins are being removed, apparently the price per kg has dropped and it’s no longer worth it. 6 have been removed from my area in the last few weeks.
The ones around me are almost always full. Doesn’t mean I can just dump the clothes like a moron
Perfect example of the service not working. The bins are not emptied. Hence the stuff is being left.
Another issue is foreigners hanging around the collection bins rooting through the clothes. Last month I went to one of the bins with a bag of clothes, woman there stopped me and said that she would put the bag in the bin for me, I refused and put the bag in myself. Got back in the car and watched them for a bit – there was a gang of them there ripping the bags open and sorting the clothes into piles. Came back later that evening and I couldn’t believe the mess they left – they basically took the clothes they wanted and just f*cked everything else around the place.
People need to start putting their shit clothes in the bin. Charity shops and clothes banks are being overrun with stuff no one would wear again.
There were three SVP ones in the Aldi car park here.
Always over flowing and bags of stuff left scattered everywhere around them.
Got taken out a few months back.
Luckily the local recycling centre has them. Brought three large bin bags of stuff a few weeks back.
€3 to get rid of them.
I know someone in the industry and they have said what’s actually happening is twofold: the market has collapsed due to the likes of shien and other ultra fast fashion and secondly, which isnt being reported, is the charity shops in Ireland used to have channels for unsold stock from their shops which have now closed or been severely restricted and as such are now dumping enmass on the council and private bank networks in what can only be described as industrial dumping. There has always been an issue of fishing items out and throwing it on the ground but the private companies are now getting overwhelmed by the volumes without the financial support required to hire the teams to cope with the excess pressure on the networks.
My friend said they had previously explored the possibility of household bins for the an option but said the issue of littering due to the fishing would be so bad and so acute on household doorstep that it was entirely unviable from both a consumer satisfaction and also contamination stand point. He said “imagine the issues you see with the plastic bottle return scheme and people looting the bins in the city centre etc and then imagine that happening at the end of your driveway! It would be a disaster”