Suburb blighted by 'abandoned trolley epidemic' as people dump them on streets
PEOPLE are "sick to death" with shoppers abandoning supermarket trolleys in streets on an estate.
Trolleys have been dumped outside homes, blocking driveways and have even damaged cars in Speke, Liverpool, recently. Shoppers use the trolleys to take their groceries home but then discard them anywhere they can, including on busy roads and on grass verges.
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One frustrated mum, who lives in the suburb, said: "I'm sick to death of coming out to go to work in the morning or of a night and there's two or three trolleys behind my car and I've got to go and take them back.
"Sometimes when we're coming home from work someone has left a trolley on the driveway and we have to get out to move the trolley to park the car. We've had our cars damaged with them and everything.
"I've had to take three or four trolleys back from behind my car back to Morrisons. They're absolutely everywhere. You see them on bonfires and everything, it's ridiculous.
"You see people filling them up with rubbish and then leaving them on grass verges, they're just everywhere."
Some trolleys have been used to collect household rubbish and garden waste, reports Liverpool Echo.
The fed-up resident said a man who works at Morrisons is often seen collecting trolleys from around the area and returning them to the store.
The mum of two added: "I feel sorry for the guy that's coming down to collect them we see him every week. He can collect at least 60 trolleys and you see him pushing them all the way back to Morrisons."
Sharing a series of photos of abandoned and burnt out trolleys on Facebook this summer, Merseyside Police said: "This is what happens when supermarket trolleys are not returned back to store you got them from. Once you have finished with your trolley can it please be returned."
A child was taken to hospital after suffering serious burns when a shopping trolley from a suspected makeshift bonfire fell on top of them on Hale Drive in Speke in November 2019.
There are several supermarkets in Speke, including the large Morrisons.
A spokesperson for the supermarket said: "We’re also concerned about abandoned trolleys. We do our best to collect them as soon as the public reports them. We urge customers not to use trolleys to take their shopping home with them."
