# Asda says no to non-charitable car park clothing recycling collections

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/09/08/asda-says-no-noncharitable-car-park-clothing-recycling-collections/
- Published: 2006-09-08T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Supermarket Asda has asked a company to remove its clothing recycling collection
bins from its car parks having learned that it is not a registered charity.
According
to The Times, Asda’s lawyers instructed Planet Aid, a company linked to the Danish
organisation Humana People to People, to remove all its bins from their premises
by the end of August.

Birgit Soe, head of Planet Aid in the UK, told The Times that it chose not to be
a registered charity so that it could be free to engage in buying and selling clothing.

Asda is continuing to permit registered charity The Salvation Army to site clothing
recycling bins in its car parks.

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