Clothesaid in london appears not collect from my area, I phoned them to find this out, and then it dawned on me these charities are so marketing led, that they probably only collect clothes from posh neighbourhoods, a bit of me really wrankled at that thought, especially the dumb receptionist they appear to employ who has an extreme soft patronising telephone tone/demeanour (that im speaking to you like a child routine), shes obviously not allowed to say the reason why they dont collect in your area, ie :
They cant make enough money off poor peoples clothes, peddling them back to charity shops in central london at near retail prices.
My prediction they pick the clothes collections, from what they perceive to be posh areas only.
What are the poor in this country supposed to do for cheap charity clothing in central london ? I dont know ? i’m sure quite a few central london charity shops are more expensive than say Primark, let alone the antique clothing boutiques that charge a high premium. Funny the day when poor people cant afford second hand clothes in this country ? but can afford cheaply produced new clothes ? certainly this arrangement doesnt encourage clothes recycling into another owner, stange to think that a book in a charity shop was 5/10p in my childhood.
It does surprise me when I hear a person like the clothesaid telephone receptionist, it makes you realise how the employers cant fire people nowadays on the basis of having a bad telephone voice or demeanour, hope shes a volunteer, as to think she gets paid to sound the way she does on the telephone is another horrible thought. How snobby and monetarist kisass facist this charity clothes business have probably become, engineered toward the moneyed set like everything else in this country, Just one more sign the common decent poor person has yet to lift the veil of ignorance of commercialistic faith resident and so strongly set in society today.
But then with islingtons now bung it all together recycling policy, Im sure a very low percentage of what we place in the greens bins is actually getting properly recycled anyway.
But then I beleive “Private Charity’s” are only a temporary solution to global problems, better government and democracy are the real solution. And boy are we in the UK in need of better democracy and government, the ills of society has run away with itself and government has stood by and encourage the development of cancerous traits within this culture, and society itself has lazily fallen for its weaker nature for the last 40 years. Spin and marketing has made it seem like progress, but really things have just been getting worse, but who wants to face that ? Now i must spend more time trying to find another route to recycle clothes.
Recycling clothes and cloth should be operated by the government not charitys, on a non partisan basis, ie everyone has access to such a service. Why only collect some of the clothes, when that, which is not fit for sale, can be recycled into other uses ?