Environmental charities, what say you?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I think most reading this understand the need to fight climate change, and clean up our waters and oceans.

But I just saw an ad for an ocean cleanup charity. They offer you a product if you donate. Ok, here is what I don't get. If the idea is to clean up the ocean, then why offer anything. Even outside charity, the more we make as a species, eventually what we consume and use ends up in a landfill or in the ocean. Why are they making anything at all, why not simply ask for the donation?

As to whether the gift they’re offering ends in in a landfill or the ocean, it depends on what the product is. The last time we donated to an environmental cause, they sent us 25 biodegradable peat pots in biodegradable packaging. Didn’t mean much to me, but herself was over the moon about it.

As to why it’s being offered in the first place, people tend to be more likely to donate if offered a gift in exchange. 

Boru