Here's another one, guys.
Well, another four.
Outside Riscotesco, all of that will go in landfill, especially if it gets wet.
If it's dry and they come on the day to pick it up, they're more likely to take it with them, I should imagine.
But they don't know if there's rats in there or anything.
And that is, that's also a big problem for like food businesses, because of the rats it'll bring.
Because they use it for bedding and they constantly breed.
It's stuff we've learned along the way, you know, environmental health has said to us, don't have pools of donations, I guess, everywhere because it's no good.
So, yeah, they're not being emptied at all, are they?
But all of that will be cash for clothes.
So, they will get, I don't know, fivepence a kilogram for that.
None of those clothes there, even if they take them all, and all of the bins, none of them, right, will go to helping anybody with wearing clothes.
All of that gets weighed in for cash for clothes.
They're a business, they then sell it online on Vinted to make money.
Then, they contact people like me and say, do you want what's left that we can't sell?
And if they ship it abroad, because I've got messages to prove that, if they ship it abroad, then they charge the third world countries for that.
And if they can't sell it back, if the people who buy it can't sell it back to the people who are struggling in the villages, because they've got no money, goes in the landfill of the third world, for example, Africa.
So, you know, most of that will end up going to landfill.
So, if I were you guys, I wouldn't use any of these donation boxes.
We could have put up donation boxes ages ago, but we didn't, because I always thought you had access to them.
So, I thought I'd have to go and collect it.
You just rent the box and I'd have to go and collect it and then go through the stuff.
Because I wouldn't have you put your baby stuff in there, because you give us beautiful stuff, absolutely stunning stuff.
So, there's no way I would have you put it in there anyway.
But that's why I've never set up one of those boxes, because you get five pence a kilogram.
You know, it's worth more as a jumper or a tracksuit.
You saw those lovely tracksuits, those River Island tracksuits today that we had and those lovely pyjama sets.
You've seen all those pyjama sets we had today.
It's worth more me gifting it out in a box to somebody in need, the more I get five pence a kilogram for it.
If it's five pence a kilogram.
I don't know.
Last time someone had their box emptied like that, they said they had 50 quid for emptying a full box of clothes like that.
I don't think it's worth it myself.
And look at the mess.
And like I said, if that gets wet, I mean, their protocol should be to put it in the bin, because rats could be on it for health and safety, right?
So any volunteer that picks that up or an employee who picks it up could, well, pick up some disease from the from the urine and the feces, okay?
Apparently rats, we've learned all this from environmental health.
Rats don't have control of their bladder.
That's why they pee indiscriminately.
Okay, so they just pee as they go along.
There's nothing they can do about it.
But like me, that's the way I'd go when you get to a certain age.
But yeah, how much of that would actually go now to helping families?
Not a lot.
And that's how they maintain the bins.
I think it's bad myself.
How much of that have blown off?
Well, not so much, I suppose, because you can't see it.
But how much would blow off into the environment now?
So yeah, I wouldn't use any of those bags at all.
We put a sign up on the fence and they've taken it down with a look of it.
Well, Tesco's wouldn't have because we know Tesco staff and they're lovely.
We know who's taken that down.
There's only one person in Briscoe who would take that down.
So that they don't get left out.
Nobody's saying don't support your chosen charity.
That's absolutely fine.
You know, support your chosen charity.
But don't leave them out like that because they'll give in.
Such a waste, you know.
Don't forget, we give out a note to 12-month bundle for free for every mother in Wales.
And we also do free prem boxes as well.
Now, we've only just got back on top of sorting the donation centre.
So the prem boxes should be available the end of the week.
But we do give out free prem boxes.
Now, I actually run them to the hospital for the mums that need them.
And then the note to 12, you just pick it up and it's all of second hand essentials that you're going to need just to cut down the cost for you like vests, sleep suits, you know.
And then you can just spend the money you have got on the nicer clothes for when you go out, you know.
You've got essentials, I never knew.
Or like a blanket, you know, woolly hats, things like that, that you're going to need.
So, yeah, it's a bit of a bit of a show, isn't it, guys?
They need to come and collect their bags.
And I mean, really speaking, if you've got... I'd be mortified if that was my bin and somebody was videoing it, right?
I would be mortified.
So, you know, I think their volunteers should come down and deal with that myself.
But there we are.
I don't know, perhaps they're not allowed to touch it once it's been donated to the bins.
I don't know.
I'm not going to pick it up because I'm ill.
I'm busy.
I got a car full of donations.
I just have from Ebbw Vale.
I've had a few people message me saying, can you pick up?
Yes, I can pick up if you've booked in and pay the pickup charge.
If you haven't, no, these guys tonight pay the pickup charge.
The only ones we waiver it for is if I'm on the way and going that way.
So I might as well pick it up.
Or if it's elderly, as in 70 plus and they're immobile, you know, so they're living in like residential care and stuff like that or the little flats.
That's the only time we ever waiver the fee.
And like we said, everything's got to be clean, tidy, games, all got to be all together.
Jigsaws.
We don't, we don't take your rubbish from where you've cleaned out.
It's got to be, you know, all the toys have got to be tidy, insets, nothing broke because then we have to pay to dispose of it otherwise.
That's why we put the delivery charge on.
So the, and the collection charge, because if I have to dispose of it, then I've got the money to dispose of it.
If not, it goes into the, into the food bank pot from puppies and et cetera.
So yeah, here's another load guys.
It's good that everybody's recycling, but it's not good that they're just being left there, is there?
