Hoppers Crossing residents are frustrated by the number of shopping trolleys littering local streets

A street in Melbourne’s west has become a dumping ground for shopping trolleys from a nearby shopping centre — and residents have had enough.

A street in Melbourne’s west has been turned into a shopping trolley dumping ground, with one fed up resident counting “more than 40 trolleys at a time”.

Rama Balla, who lives on Barber Drive directly behind Pacific Werribee shopping centre, said he was forced to remove dumped trolleys and rubbish from his front yard almost every day.

“It gets bad late in the week because people dump a lot of fast food rubbish in the trolleys and then it all flies out onto the street,” he said.

“I think it’s just people being lazy. They bring their trolleys out to their cars parked on the street and just leave it here when they’re done.

“It’s a very nice street and this just makes it look bad.”

Fellow resident Jenny Dark said she had counted “more than 40 trolleys at a time” left on the street.

“At times we get them quite far up the street as well,” she said.

“They don’t seem to come and collect them for days. Really, it’s people who just don’t take them back which is the problem and then they’re left there for days.”

Trolleys are continuously being dumped on Barber Drive in Hoppers Crossing.

Last year, a Wyndham City Council survey found that 47 per cent of respondents considered abandoned shopping trolleys to be a big issue.

Since then council has amended its local law, with one of the changes being retailers must collect trolleys within three days of a report being made.

Upon failing to do so, “council may impound and dispose of the trolley without further notice”.

Pacific Werribee general manager Ryan Ling said the centre would look into any reports of trolleys left in the street.

“All trolleys at Pacific Werribee are supplied by individual retailers, and the management of them are solely their responsibility,” Mr Ling said.

“Trolley collection contractors are engaged by our retailers to ensure trolleys are returned to their appropriate place, and on the rare occasion this doesn’t occur, we work closely with our retail partners to rectify the issue.

“We also pass on any feedback we receive about trolleys to the relevant retailers for action.

“The comfort and wellbeing of our entire local community is very important to us at Pacific Werribee, and something we take very seriously.”