Counting the climate costs of abandoned shopping trolleys

Counting the climate costs of abandoned shopping trolleys

Richard Johnson/ShutterstockDespite the steady growth of online shopping, a majority of the UK public still prefers to buy groceries at the supermarket. Shopping trolleys can help us lug our purchases back to the car, but some shoppers are evidently taking them further afield. In 2017, 520,000 trolleys were reported as abandoned in the UK. Sunderland in north-east England alone reported 30,000 abandoned trolleys between 2020 and 2022. Likewise, …

Cambridge area blighted by dumped trolleys as resident slam 'mess'

One resident says trolleys are dumped on a daily basis in a Cambridge ward. He said it is a "mess" and they "give a bad impression of the area".