The National Association of Charities (NAC) today released a statement urgently asking optometrists and ophthalmologists to please stop trying to dump their old unsellable OCT’s in charity clothing bins.
President of the NAC, Rosemary Melon said in her statement “Our clothing bins are strictly for old t-shirts, jumpers, blouses and maybe slacks. They are certainly not for obsolete retinal imaging devices which very few underprivileged people would have any use for”.
Melon went on to single out optometrists for their other unusual donations “Also, what is with all the old pantaloons? I haven’t seen a pair of pantaloons since I last saw the Macbeth stage play, then a new optometry practice opens nearby and all of a sudden our bins are full of old pantaloons”.
Local optometrist Dean Simrodd told our reporters “What these charities don’t realise is that it is damn near impossible to offload an old OCT. Seriously I put my old Stratus up for sale and didn’t get a single bit of interest. I even left it on the kerb for a week and no-one took it. In the end, I donated it to my kid’s school Mother’s Day Raffle just to get rid of it.”
