Media Release from Ipswich City Councillor Paul Tully
Queensland councils will have the power to force supermarkets to have coin-operated shopping trolleys under a plan approved by the Urban Local Government Association.
The association which represents 70 percent of Queensland voted to seek greater controls over abandoned trolleys.
Ipswich delegate Cr Paul Tully told the conference Aldi was the only supermarket chain in Queensland which imposed a refundable $2 fee to use its trolleys.
"You rarely see an Aldi shopping trolley in a park or local creek."
Cr Tully singled out Coles and Woolworths saying their corporate responsibility for reducing the visual pollution of abandoned shopping trolleys around Australia was "next to zero".
Cr Tully said Ipswich Council was looking at a proposal to control runaway trolleys in shopping centre carparks.
He said too many cars were being damaged every day by out-of-control shopping trolleys.
"We are looking at requiring a small push bar on each trolley which would automatically activate a brake, similar to the trolleys at airports.
"The days of getting back to your car in a shopping centre and finding a huge dent in the side of the vehicle will hopefully soon be over," Cr Tully said.
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