The city needs to start fining the owners of these abandoned shopping carts for illegal dumping. The fact the owners do not stop the carts from being removed from there property and allowing them to become a public nuisance and blight. When asked what Oakland PWD does with these carts they pick up "We take them to the landfill"
The owner of these cart make up the loss by charging the public more money for the products we buy. As tax payers we are paying to have the carts hauled to the dump.

City of Oakland Public Works Department addressed this issue on 11/29/2015, service request # 618995.

Thanks