This is part two of a four-part investigative series by CTV W5 into the seedy underbelly of the lucrative clothing donation bin industry. W5 correspondent Jon Woodward and producer Joseph Loiero, using trackers, reveal a for-profit operation masquerading as a charity.
And that those organizations have previously faced allegations of profiting improperly from a charitable status that has long since been revoked.“Probably they capitalize on it because they see the value of something that is worth reselling,” Sebastian said in an interview with W5. “But it should be given to the ones who really need it.”
Toys and clothing W5 stuffed with GPS tracking devices and placed in clothing bins ended up scattered throughout the Greater Toronto Area and 7,400 km in Tunisia, Africa Romanoff was also the listed director of a Toronto thrift store called Market By The Pound, where people can purchase clothes by weight. That’s where Sebastian bought the stuffed elephant.
As for Siggia, he said over the phone that he no longer does any work in the clothing bin business as well. He said he believes others are using the CCSF bins and he’s not responsible for what is being done with them. Nazarene Sebastian and her family came to Canada in 2022. A toy W5 concealed a GPS tracker in and placed in a clothing bin ended up at a Toronto thrift store, Market by the Pound, where she then purchased it and donated it to kids back home in the Philippines She said she was in a hospital in her native Philippines in 2021, first diagnosed with lung cancer and then COVID-19.
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