Greener Rewards In Trolley Refunds
Newcastle Herald
Monday November 12, 2007
MAITLAND councillor Ray Fairweather has declared war on feral shopping trolleys.
He will ask councillors at a meeting tomorrow night to support him to have shopping trolleys available to customers through refundable deposit only.He will call on general manager David Evans to arrange a meeting with supermarket managers with a view to introducing the scheme across the Maitland local government area.Cr Fairweather said Coles at Rutherford and Aldi at Greenhills had the refundable deposit trolley system."It will reduce if not eliminate the instances of shopping trolleys being left strewn around the city and on river banks, etc at the same time improving the appearance of the city," he said in a report.Council group manager service regulation and planning Leanne Harris said the use of the refundable return system might help to achieve the environmental protection Cr Fairweather wanted.
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