Charities often see a spike in illegal and unusable donations being dumped over the holidays as people take on the Christmas and New Year clean out.
But new figures show the problem is getting worse with more than 80,000 tonnes of rubbish dumped at Australian charities every year, costing them a fortune.
Anna Hartley reports.
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