Shoal Creek Shopping Cart Corral helps clean Austin waterways [Video]

Community volunteers removed shopping carts from the creek, as well as other pieces of litter.

The event started after a 2021 report by the Watershed Protection Department found there were 500 shopping carts throughout Austin’s creeks.

“If at all possible, we like to partner with the retailers to reclaim the carts and take them back to their stores to fix up and put back to use … That is really the main goal. Sometimes it’s not possible, so we work with Austin Resource Recovery to recycle all the carts we collect during these events,” said Ivey Kaiser, executive director of the Shoal Creek Conservancy.

During last year’s event, the Shoal Creek Conservancy recovered 48 shopping carts. For Saturday’s event just yet, the group tells KVUE they collected 50 shopping …