Have you heard of the "Trolleywise" app ?"The UK’s 36m smartphone users now have the power to clean up Britain’s streets through a new free smartphone app that targets the scourge of abandoned trolleys.Specialist trolley retrieval service provider, Trolleywise, has introduced a simple-to-use, ‘point and click’ tracking technology linked to a national collection service that guarantees errant trolleys are off the street within 24 hours to be returned to the stores or repaired.Currently, cash-strapped local authorities have the responsibility of rounding up abandoned trolleys and charging the repatriation back to the owner supermarkets – often by way of fines. The new system, which is backed by the major supermarkets, allows consumers to take control of a more rapid and joined-up clean-up.There are currently more than two million trolleys in circulation in the UK, but up to 400,000 go ‘missing in action’ every year, never to be seen again. Many more are ‘borrowed’ and end up in canals or ‘joy-ridden’, ultimately being abandoned around town and city centres. The free-to-download Trolleywise app, for both Apple and Android smartphones, allows consumers to photograph the abandoned shopping trolleys, triggering a GPS location system that summons a collection within 24 hours by a specialist Trolleywise team."https://www.wanzl.com/en_EN/service/wanzl-uk-service/service-innovation/trolleywise-app/
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