The Death of a Superman
April 6, 2026 at 09:32PMSome time ago, Paul Collins began documenting deaths that occurred in clothing donation bins, whose designs are hostile and can be lethal, depending on the interaction. In his enthralling feature, Collins explores issues of design, regulation, homelessness, and invisibility, utterly transforming our understanding of a commonplace community fixture.
Here are some things that have been found in donation bins:
A live puppy. Live Japanese grenades. An 1854 tombstone for Rebecca Jane Nye. Old skulls. A stolen Frederic Remington sculpture. Customized Air Jordans made for Spike Lee. Three pounds of marijuana. Five pounds of marijuana. A five-hundred-pound US Navy practice bomb. A mastodon tooth. An inert mortar shell. A live mortar shell. A Rolex worth three thousand dollars. A World War I machine gun. The first stamp issued in the US. More than five thousand used blood vials. A Bible signed by the 1953 Pittsburgh Pirates. People.
from Longreads https://longreads.com/2026/04/06/clothing-donation-bins-deaths/
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