Yellow Planet Aid Boxes Are Front for Dubious Danish Organization

FEATURING AMY WALTERS – If you’ve ever stuffed your used clothing into one of the many yellow donation boxes in your neighborhood thinking you were doing a good deed, think again. The boxes, labeled “Planet Aid” suggest donating clothing, shoes, and other items. But an on-going investigative reporting project by Reveal, has found that Planet Aid is one of many organizations that are part of a Danish organization called The Teachers Group, and that your used goods are mostly benefitting the pocket books of its executives rather than people in need.

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Amy Walters is a reporter and producer for Reveal. She has won multiple awards for her journalism, including two Peabodys, and an Edward R. Murrow award.