Our church has had one for a few months now. Architecturally approved by our (STRICT) town board; it get us about $100-125 per month.
You can always expect them to be overflowing immediately after the weekend yard sales, with the crap nobody would buy at the so-called yard sales.
Then, on Monday, it rains, on Tuesday it rains, then maybe by Thursday, they come around to empty them and they have a sodden, mildewing mess.
Of course there is nothing worth putting into the thrift stores or preparing for donation to the needy, since the illegal population has been there before anybody else and cleaned out the good stuff.
The illegal population treat them as shopping receptacles.
The local Hannah House has tried everything to foil them, but I once went by one and saw a woman boosting a 6-8 year old child into one of them and he started throwing the good stuff back out.
There needs to be a better, for sure.
Calling them a nuisance so they can collect a s $300K “permit fee”. Its about it being an eyesore. Riiiiiiightttt.
When bins are banned...only renegade recyclers will have bins.
Nothing more than rationalized theft from charities.
Those who promote such regulations covet the grace exercised by others, then rationalize their thefts of freely given property by claiming the mechanics of grace are offensive to them.
Where else to they expect people to dispose of their old underwear, worn-out laptop batteries, or old CRT-style television sets?
Yet I’m the villain if I complain about the beggars waiting for me every time I hit a red light.
Too many treat the boxes as free dumping for garbage the garbage company won’t take: CRTs are hazardous waste (lead), furniture (couches & mattresses in particular) is just too big, etc. Those places that _will_ take such things require you pay for the privilege to do so. Commercial dumpsters big enough are often monitored and unauthorized use prosecuted. Convince oneself “it’s for charity” and the problem of difficult disposal goes away with just dropping it in or next to the “Donations” bin...creating an eyesore (at best), or toxic waste dump (at worst).
I do wonder who, seriously, puts those bins up - they seem much more trouble than they’re worth.