08/15/2026
While TEO is grateful to all of the amazing community members who thoughtfully donate to TEO, we have to post something unsettling.
More and more TEO is being used to discard junk.
The outside bins are for clothes and soft goods only.
TEO takes a limited amount of household items and like new toys.
We do not take old inhalers, mismatched earrings, old Tupperware, old calenders, magazines, trash bags, used photo albums, coloring books that have been already used, or children's art projects, the list could go on.
Today some dumped bags of what essentially amounts to trash outside the bins at TEO.
It is not the first time this has happened.
It is not fair to the volunteers who help at TEO. It is not fair to our neighbors. It is not fair to those we serve as we are spending an inordinate amount of time dealing with and paying to remove trash that is dumped off.
If it persists, we will have no choice but to require everyone to drop inside.