FOI release

FOI Request – Charges to Retailers for Abandoned Shopping Trolleys (CNEA 2005)

Case reference FOI2025/00940

Received 31 October 2025

Published 28 November 2025

Request

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Please provide the following details for the last five financial years (or the most recent available period):

1. The total quantity by retailer and value of charges or fines levied by your council on retailers for the removal, storage, and disposal of abandoned shopping trolleys, under the powers granted by the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 and/or Schedule 4 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

2. A breakdown of these charges by retailer, including the number of trolleys recovered and the total amount charged per retailer.

3. Any policy documents or fee schedules used to determine the charges applied to retailers for abandoned trolleys.

4. Whether your council operates a voluntary trolley collection scheme with retailers, and if so, which retailers are participating.

Response

“I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

 

Please provide the following details for the last five financial years (or the most recent available period):


1. The total quantity by retailer and value of charges or fines levied by your council on retailers for the removal, storage, and disposal of abandoned shopping trolleys, under the powers granted by the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 and/or Schedule 4 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. – This is not recorded as standard practice and has not changed since last years request.


2. A breakdown of these charges by retailer, including the number of trolleys recovered and the total amount charged per retailer.- £0


3. Any policy documents or fee schedules used to determine the charges applied to retailers for abandoned trolleys. – We do not recognise this as a policy, we don’t have a problem with this issue in the district given the rural nature.


4. Whether your council operates a voluntary trolley collection scheme with retailers, and if so, which retailers are participating.” - This Authority does not operative a voluntary trolley collection scheme but would collect abandoned shopping trolleys as part of their Street Scene Team’s daily work.

 

Environmental services:

 

Please provide the following details for the last five financial years (or the most recent available period):

  1. The total quantity by retailer and value of charges or fines levied by your council on retailers for the removal, storage, and disposal of abandoned shopping trolleys, under the powers granted by the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 and/or Schedule 4 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

£0

 

  1. A breakdown of these charges by retailer, including the number of trolleys recovered and the total amount charged per retailer.

N/A

 

  1. Any policy documents or fee schedules used to determine the charges applied to retailers for abandoned trolleys.

N/A

 

  1. Whether your council operates a voluntary trolley collection scheme with retailers, and if so, which retailers are participating.

No scheme.

Documents

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This is South Derbyshire District Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.

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