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shopping trolley graveyard in Jordan River

Parks and Wildlife Service to clean up shopping trolley graveyard in Jordan River

DOZENS of rusted supermarket trolleys dumped off the Jordan River Bridge near Bridgewater will finally be cleaned up by the Parks and Wildlife Service after years of frustration. Brighton Council general manager Ron Sanderson said trolleys in the Jordan River, off Herdsmans Cove, had been a problem for “well over 10 years”. He said the

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Children at particular risk of injury from improper use of supermarket trolleys

For Irmgard Polklaser and her husband Walter it was a very ordinary day that ended extraordinarily with a death caused by the most everyday of objects. It was August 2010, and the elderly couple were doing a spot of shopping at Adelaide’s Tea Tree Plaza shopping centre. By the time they stepped onto the travelator,

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abandoned supermarket trolley

Dumped supermarket trolleys are raising the ire of St George and shire residents

Doing the right thing: Linshan Zhu, who takes her own trolley when shopping, passes an abandoned supermarket trolley in Carrington Avenue, Hurstville. The number of supermarket trolleys being abandoned in the streets of St George sand Sutherland Shire appears to be on the rise. Dumped trolleys frequently line the Kingsway between Miranda and Caringbah, and

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