800 JUNKIT VERIFICATION

ONLY a charity will give you a charity receipt for the value of your goods. That means our pick up dollars move goods to our community, not to profits. ONLY a charity takes your precious belongings and puts them to use where they are needed without layering costs and profits. Our mission to continue to furnish homes has only become harder but we have adapted our methods to keep our community safe and to do so at the highest standard of safety and Covid19 compliance. We are operating our removal service in these difficult times to preserve all our employee jobs who wish to stay on the front lines working as part of Toronto’s homelessness response teams. The message is clear: “ NO, NOT HAPPENING, DOING OUR BEST.” In 2020 when you hire a junk removal company, your good items of furniture are 100% ending up in the dump instead of going to charity – even if they claim otherwise. “We do our best to donate” ( Junk Chuckers).“We do our best, but no guarantees” ( Junk Hero).

“Yes normally we try, but we don’t at this time” ( JunkRemovalCanada).

“Not happening, realistically assume its being dumped” ( 1-888-IAMJUNK).

“No, with COVID-19 we don’t donate” ( We Haul).

“We normally try but no donation centres are open” ( Junk Works).

“Our website says we donate, trust us” ( Just Junk).

“We stopped with donations – nothing is open” ( Junk It).

“There is no donating- everything goes straight to the dump!” ( Rid of it).

“We are doing our best to donate to charity” ( 1-800-Got-Junk).

We provided each Toronto junker with the same information and furniture removal scenario, including a clear goal : we wanted to hire them to do the removal AND ensure the good items got to a local charity, as their websites promised. Do they actually donate furniture to Toronto charities? We did some mystery shopping in April 2020 to see if the staff at several junk removal companies in Toronto could provide any clarity as to how they handle good reuseable furniture and homegoods. Here is what our 2020 junk removal review of charitable giving found.

800 JUNKIT VERIFICATION

If you live in Toronto and want your unwanted furnuture and home goods to do good – look for an organization that provides you a tax receipt and verification of the donation. While most of these Toronto companies offer their furniture removal service with the claim to donate good used furniture to local charities, the reality is often different. In the end, we got a pretty clear picture – junkers are not charitable with your furniture. We reviewed the websites of Toronto’s top junk removal companies and spoke with their sales teams. They need to be off to the next junk stop to make money. There is no time for extra stops and careful handling of items that could be reused. This items will be tossed not placed Items won’t be tied down to avoid damage in transit. Junkers only make profit when your items of junk get on and off their truck fast. Unfortunately, our experience in the Toronto area working with other charities is that this is far from the truth. Every Toronto junk removal company we reviewed makes a commitment to donate your good used furniture to a local charity.

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