Goodwill gone bad
Posted Aug 10, 2011 8:54 pm.
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A Calgary woman says she is heartbroken that the clothing, bedding and toys she gathered for victims of the Slave Lake fire ended up in a landfill.
Melissa Gunning says her eco-friendly baby business started collecting items after a friend lost her home in May to the raging wildfire.
She says when the community said it didn’t need anymore items, she was left with two large storage lockers full of donations.
Gunning says she took a lot of the items to local charities but ended up called a junk hauler to take away the rest.
She says she was assured the items would be recycled.
The boxes were plowed under because the landfill has a strict policy that doesn’t allow scavenging.