A woman has been left “furious” as a bag of clothes left out for recycling were stolen from outside her home in Leigh on Sea yesterday morning. Ray Morgan, who lives in Highcliff Drive, had left a large white plastic sack of clothes outside her house to be collected for recycling, when two men decided to help themselves in an apparently organised operation.
Ray said: “There were two men in a white van, cruising the streets at around 8am. One of them was jumping out of the van and grabbing the sacks that had been left out.”
Residents say that this isn’t the first time this has happened. They blame the spate of thefts on a rise in ‘cash for clothes’ initiatives, where sacks of clothes are collected from peoples houses and bought for around 50p per kilo, and say that they no longer leave their clothes out for recycling, but donate them to a charity shop instead.
Jack Monroe. Twitter: @MsJackMonroe. Email: jack.monroe@nqe.com
Published Southend Echo, 4th March 2013.
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I think donating ‘directly’ to your preferred charity is the best solution. Because even if you put them in the right collection bags and they are collected by their intended receivers that is not to say some of these ‘groups’ are who they say they are when the post their ‘recycle’ bags through your door. In general I’m very wary where my cloth donations go even if i donate to a high street brand, there is a certain short-sightedness to say sending cloths to Africa as there are regions where healthy growing local business are now actually going out of business because of an influx of cheap and/or free clothing. There are of course very valid places to send your donations to help worthy causes, such as disaster relief operations, where local businesses are equally affected…