A woman has raised her concerns about pollution at a north-east beach with a major supermarket.
The Peterhead resident, who does not want to be named, met the manager from the town’s Morrisons store at Gadle Braes yesterday to voice her concerns about a collection of discarded shopping trolleys.
She is worried about the potential environmental impact of the 12 abandoned carts along a mile and a half stretch of the beach, which she claims are beginning to rust.
The pensioner said Aberdeenshire Council used to deal with these types of incidents, but that is no longer the case.
She said: “The council do not have the funds to clean up the beach and they are just left there rotting.
“That is another issue, the council need some funding.
“They used to come to clear this area but now the trolleys are being left to rot.”
The 67-year-old has now urged shop managers to do more to make sure trolleys are kept within the boundary of the Queen Street store.
She said: “How do we go about securing these shopping trolleys and stop them leaving Morrisons?
“Morrisons have got to sort this problem out. In America there are ways to stop trolleys being removed.
“I am going to try to find a solution to stop them being removed.”
A Morrisons spokeswoman said the shopping carts would be taken away from the beach.
She said: “We’re very grateful to the local community and those people who go out of their way to help reporting stolen trolleys.
“Our trolleys are valuable to us and whenever they are reported to one of our colleagues, we send a team out to recover them as soon as we can.
“We are currently seeking advice from the local council on how best to recover stolen trolleys currently on the beach – because of their potentially dangerous location and situation.”
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency have said the abandoned trollies would not likely have any impact on the local environment.
