VANCOUVER—Local politicians want to investigate how city governments can protect people from dying in clothing donation bins. She told StarMetro she asked Vancouver’s city manager earlier this week whether anything could be done to make donation bins safer. Poverty advocates say people struggling to survive are driven to enter the donation bins despite knowing the danger because the boxes are potential sources of clean, dry clothing. In contrast, donation bin regulations in the Lower Mainland range from a complete ban of donation bins on public land to only allowing charities to place bins on city-owned property. Burnaby and Pitt Meadows have banned all donation bins from public property.

Source: thestar January 03, 2019 01:41 UTC