When walking along the canals around Wigan it is not uncommon to see a shopping trolley poking from the water's surface. Now, the issue has become so bad the council has a whole policy to fish out the problem.
Part of a larger crackdown on litter and fly-tipping, trolley dumping has its own special action plan which would see retailers put to the sword for these abandoned carts. Coun Lawrence Hunt suggested ‘uninterested’ supermarkets should be fined to set a precedent, the Confident Places Scrutiny Committee heard at Wigan Town Hall on October 19.
Councillors were told there have been 66 reports of dumped trolleys in the waterways last year, and ‘it is getting more and more prevalent’.
