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The charity collection bins in my area are nothing more than garbage receptacles.

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.

The charity collection bins in my area are nothing more than garbage receptables.

That can happen if they're in unsupervised areas or aren't emptied daily. Much better than the bins would be to have someone available at the smaller charities if someone wants to leave something off.