Waterloo Regional Police continue to investigate the death of a man found trapped in a donation bin in Cambridge

At least seven Canadians have died after getting stuck in clothing donation bins and the latest fatality has prompted an advocate to call for the "death traps" to be immediately fixed or removed.

Waterloo Regional Police responded to a clothing donation bin on Hespeler Road after receiving reports a man was trapped inside the chute.

Officers arrived the morning of November 1, 2018 to find a 32-year-old man dead.

Regional Police say their investigation is ongoing.

Meantime, a 34-year-old man was found lodged in a bin in West Vancouver on Sunday, the fifth person in British Columbia to die the same way since 2015.

Jeremy Hunka of Union Gospel Mission in Vancouver says homeless people often try to get items out of bins or use them for shelter in cold weather without realizing the safety risks.

He says there are too many mission clients who could have otherwise turned their lives around who are dying horrible deaths, and the "death traps" need to be fixed or removed immediately.

Professor Ray Taheri of the University of B-C's Okanagan campus says his first-year students began working on designs to change the bins after a woman died in Vancouver last July.

He says bins could be designed to lock if someone tries to place anything over a certain weight inside.

Another man died after getting trapped in a donation bin in Calgary in July of 2017.

With files from the Canadian Press.