Major supermarkets hit with charges after shopping trolleys found 'up a tree and dumped in river'

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

A council is set to hit major supermarkets in the pocket recovering dumped shopping trolleys. In Bolton, trolleys will now be removed by the authority ‘in a bid to tackle the blight of flytipping’.

Shopping trolleys are regularly taken from supermarkets and shops in the borough and abandoned in public spaces. Earlier this year, Bolton Council ran a public consultation on how it should tackle the issue.

More than half of the respondents agreed that Bolton Council should adopt national legislation. One respondent said: “We find trolleys in green spaces in rivers, bushes and even up a tree.

Burnt out trolleys are also an issue as people fill them with household waste then set them on fire.” Another who replied, said: “As litter pickers we encounter many abandoned shopping trolleys, children tend to use them to play with meaning that they drift around the place when they are not collected.