Rolling the streets alone or tangled together in a herd of metal, abandoned shopping carts are an unwelcome part of the urban landscape in Edmonton and other Canadian cities.
Every year, thousands of carts stray from the store parking lots where they belong and come to rest in streets, alleys, city parks or deep into the wilds of the river valley.
The phenomenon has long proved a nuisance in Canadian cities. Discarded carts are a perennial eyesore and a source of unwieldy rubbish that can often prove costly to retailers and the municipal governments saddled with cleaning them up.
“Do something. Keep the bloody carts
