THIS week, the Hereford Times reported that a large number of unsaleable items have been donated to St Michael’s Hospice (Plea as unsaleable items donated to Herefordshire charity, October 7).

This, the story said, included stuff like dirty clothing, broken furniture, DVD and CD cases without discs, dirty homeware and kitchen items, broken electricals and even bags of household rubbish.

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This is just awful, and I can’t believe that people would so selfishly waste the time of volunteers who serve this wonderful charity.

People seem to be treating these charity shops as a dumping ground because they are too lazy to take their rubbish to the skip.

But they clearly haven’t thought about the people will have to sort through it all only to realise that it is completely unsaleable.

No one in their right mind would sell items in this state, and certainly no one would buy them.

What are your thoughts?

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Sadly the only destination for this stuff is the bin and a large proportion will be sent to landfill.

I completely understand the urge to get rid of everything you’ve purged from your home as quickly as possible, but we need to stop treating our charity shops like a skip.

Leaving St Michael’s Hospice with such an unmanageable amount of waste is taking time and resources away from the great work they do.

LOUISA BROWN

Hereford