I live near the University campus in Penryn and have been moving trolleys back to ASDA as part of my walk to school with my children for many years.

I don't think it's fair to blame the trolley blight on the university students, they are kids, away from home often for the first time, and told they shouldn't have cars.

Most will have grown up with parents driving to out-of-town supermarkets, stocking up, and driving the stuff home. Isn't that what thousands of shoppers at ASDA do? If the students had an alternative I bet they'd use it.

However, ASDA doesn't even have a sign on their pedestrian exit to ask shoppers to leave the trolleys on site. The trolleys themselves have no deposit scheme or magnetic locking mechanism to stop them from leaving ASDA's site.

It's as if ASDA are quite happy for students to take trolley-fulls of shopping away with them, more sales, right?

And who has to pick up the cost for trolleys being dumped in or near the university campus? FX Plus does their bit by asking their grounds staff to gather up the trolleys twice a week. ASDA spend nothing on this.

When I asked the Store Manager what they could do, I was told that they pay a company to gather abandoned trolleys for them (Trolleywise app). When I tried to report a few trolleys via that app, it told me that they didn't operate in Penryn.

Back at ASDA, I found another member of staff to give me more information, ASDA staff in Penryn are as keen as the rest of us to prevent the trolleys from being removed. Head Office won't fund the technology they want to install to make this happen.

It doesn't surprise me in the slightest that a cost-cutting mega-retailer would give little care to the unsightly scattering of its trolleys around the town.

It's time for the community to make Head Office listen and demand:

1. Signs on the exits warning customers not to take the trolleys.

1. Technology to make the wheels lock on the pedestrian exit.

And students - you can get deliveries, right?

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