The Rotorua Council wants business owners to shoulder the cost of recovering abandoned trolleys.
Ratepayers are currently paying $5000 a month for hundreds of shopping trolleys to be collected from the streets.
Rotorua District Residents and Ratepayers chair Dr Reynold Macpherson says the supermarkets should help cover the costs of these trolley hunts, as opposed to ratepayers.
"The trolleys are actually owned by the supermarkets, and I believe they should cover the council's trolley collection and storage costs. They could actually fund trolley hunts with MSD and Kāinga Ora, with voluntary service organisations."
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