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BBC News
08-08-2025
- BBC News
Dumped trolleys blight streets, say Peterborough councillors
City councillors say shopping trolleys being abandoned across neighbourhoods are becoming a big Knight, Independent councillor for Orton Waterville, Peterborough, said she had found "dozens of trolleys" scattered around the Ortons, causing "real problems for our communities", Knight also warned of the safety risks, particularly for vulnerable residents, posed by the abandoned trolleys."It comes down to laziness and lack of responsibility. My husband and I collected 18 trolleys not long ago and within days, they were back again," she said. Richard Stangward, Labour councillor for Bretton, echoed her frustration."We are also seeing people piling bags of rubbish into the trolleys and then leaving them in public areas," he said."You could go to different areas of Bretton and will definitely find one."Stangward acknowledged the city council's FixMyStreet app was generally effective and encouraged residents to report issues."The app usually gets them gone within 48 hours of reporting, but they are so busy all the time," he said."Bretton is a good area but things like this drag it down." Abandoned trolleys have also been reported in Werrington, Westwood, and parts of council said it used the app Trolleywise to report them."If they are not listed as ones that they support, we will endeavour to return them if the shop is identifiable and local," a council spokesperson retailers have attempted measures to prevent trolleys being taken for example, requires customers to insert a £1 coin to release a Knight said people were finding "a way around it.""They are using buttons or even smaller coins to access them instead," she said one Orton shop, QD, was attaching clothing security tags to its trolleys in a bid to tackle the issue."If anyone takes them out of the shop, an alarm goes off. A staff member has to push the trolley for you to the car," she said."We need to do something. They make our streets look neglected but also pose a hazard when left on pavements, especially for those using mobility scooters." Follow Peterborough news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
02-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Newport supermarkets to be charged for abandoned trolleys
Supermarkets in Newport could be charged for trolleys that have been abandoned on public land. Newport City Council say abandoned trolleys are a "growing problem" and cause antisocial behaviour and environmental damage, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service. The council hopes a new policy could curb the issue and give retailers a financial incentive to make sure trolleys stay on their public will likely have a say on the proposals that could see companies pay £100, with trolleys returned to the supermarket. Under proposals, the local authority would remove an abandoned trolley from council land or highways and keep it in storage for up to six will then find and contact each trolley's owner within seven days of its removal, notifying them of the seizure and making arrangements for its proposed charge for this overall service would be set at £100 per trolley – lower than the £120 to £200 the council estimates each trolley cases where the owner is unknown or where a trolley is not collected, after six weeks the council will take ownership of that trolley and will likely resell or otherwise dispose of supermarkets have existing arrangements with a third-party organisation to collect reported abandoned trolleys, but the council argues "this process is far from sufficient".Under the new proposals, the council's powers would be limited to its own land and public highways, and would not include main rivers or other waterways under the management of agencies such as Natural Resources in those cases the council would contact those agencies to request a trolley's policy will also exclude private land, but the council has opened up the possibility of some collections if a landowner makes a request.
