A dropoff box set up in a strip mall on Portion Road in Ronkonkoma run by NJ Clipper Corp. Links of London instance, didn't comply with most Suffolk regulations requiring it to indicate that it was forprofit and list its address, simply noting it was to be used for "donations, clothing, shoes and toys." As groups like the Salvation Army, Goodwill, St. Vincent DePaul and others struggle to overcome indifference to get clothing donations for their dropoff boxes, they're facing a growing problem competition from forprofit companies that set up boxes, often lacking the necessary identification required by recently passed Links of London W Charm laws. Damon Rader, administrator for the Salvation Army in Hempstead, said his organization has seen a decline in clothing donations of about percent this year, due at least in part to competition from forprofits. "You have boxes popping up left and right that sound like charities and really are not. They have charitable sounding names, but they're really for profit. They take a big chunk of what would come to us," Rader said. "They're harvesting clothing from the United States and selling it overseas by weight. A lot of them don't even claim to be charities. People assume they are." Islip, Brookhaven and Suffolk County Links of London V Charm began requiring companies and organizations to prominently display the name, place of business and telephone number of the operator on each side of each bin. Boxes set up by forprofit companies must prominently indicate they're for profit. Nassau County this year passed similar legislation. But visits to various boxes run by forprofit companies found they failed to comply with regulations, sitting in corners of parking lots with little or insufficient information about the recipient. "It's very misleading," Rader said. "People don't realize when they're putting their clothing in that metal bin that none of it is going to anybody in need." Despite recent efforts to regulate boxes locally and in New Jersey, no such law has been passed in New York. The potential for fines of and up and confiscation of clothing bins have links of london sale pushed some companies that furnish these boxes to provide all the necessary information. A dropoff box set up in a strip mall on Portion Road in Ronkonkoma run by NJ Clipper Corp. for instance, didn't comply with most Suffolk regulations requiring it to indicate that it was forprofit and list its address, simply noting it was to be used for "donations, clothing, shoes and toys." Calls to NJ Clipper weren't returned.
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