Vancouverite calls for changes after homeless woman dies in clothing donation bin

A woman in her 30s has died after getting stuck in a used clothing donation bin on Vancouver’s west side early Monday morning — prompting a call to make used item receptacles safer.

Saskia Wolsak was one of several neighbours who tried to help the homeless woman who got stuck. 

“If this were a stroller or this were a car, [these donation bins] would be recalled,” Wolsak said. “This cannot be what these charities actually want.”  

Wolsak lives near the West Point Grey Community Centre where the woman died. She said she woke up at about 4 a.m. when she heard a man shouting, “Somebody