The Goodwill Shop takes new and near-new items, and House of Sadaqa does not collect furniture or used goods. So what happens to the perfectly usable sofa or the bag of worn but wearable clothes? Landfill is not the only answer.Why will a new and near-new shop not...
The instinct to donate rather than dump is a good one, and it goes wrong often. Charities in Australia spend real money each year disposing of donations that were never saleable. Sorting honestly at home is the single most useful thing a donor can do.What should be...
From 2013 until 2026, a shipping container left Sydney every month carrying nineteen tonnes of clothing and shoes. It went to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and parts of Africa. By the charity’s own reckoning it reached more than a million people....
Buying secondhand extends the life of things already made, keeps prices reachable for households on tight budgets, and, at a charity shop, funds services for people in crisis. It is one of the few consumer choices where the cheap option is also the responsible one....
A donated item is sorted, then either given directly to a family through the Family Support Program or sold through The Goodwill Shop to fund the charity’s work. Either way it stays in use, which is the point. Reuse keeps an item doing its job instead of...
The main difference is regrowth speed. Bamboo is a grass that regenerates from its own root system within a few years, while the trees used for conventional toilet paper take decades to replace. Both end up flushed, so the environmental question is really about what...
