I’ve always been intrigued by the ladies and gentleman that push shopping trolley’s around the city, collecting recyclable materials. More often than not the trolley’s are souped up and customised so they can hold more materials. I think some of these trolley designs are ingenious…designed around the users, for real needs, using found objects. These guys are working hard, and providing a valuable service to our cities! Two years ago, I tried to start a project to help the trolley pushers in whatever way I could. The project quickly failed because no one wanted to support or be associated with a project that “supported alcoholics”… I feel that, how any one chooses to spend their money (provided its legal of course) is no business of ours, especially when the way they’re earning their money if providing such a valuable service. I also feel that, making the assumption that anyone that collects rubbish to be recycled is an alcoholic is a little short sighted and mean.
So now I’m beginning again. I’ve started a small collection of pictures of these trolley’s and would love you all to submit images of trolley’s that you’ve found. Maybe some day in the future, the images can be printed and bound…
(And the next time you have a heap of rubbish that can be recycled, consider giving it to one of the people with the shopping trolley’s, they’re usually everywhere, so finding them shouldn’t be difficult.)
Cheers Liam
Hi darling! I think this is a great idea and should be aplaud!
helooo my love bite, pictures of trolley pullers ok?
Hey guys,
Good point, sounds like an idea. Coincidently I'm redesigning the shopping trolley for my final b.tech report and came accross this article:
" Woolworths has long been associated with quality. Think Woolworths, and what comes to mind is a third-generation, hand-me-down item of clothing that might just have come back into fashion by then. We have a set of Woolworths dinner crockery that, despite numerous family dinners and our best Rambo-like washing-up efforts, refuses to concede even one chip. The mushrooming of Woolworths food stores attests not only to its eye for the busy-lifestyle-need-good-food-quick market, but is a gesture to the wannabe middle-class suburbs whose property prices appreciate with the proximity of a “Woolies”. Even the trolley-pushing citizens of the streets of Cape Town seem to respect Woolworths quality.
I’m convinced that when the homeless folk of the city gather in Woodstock for their weekly open-air auditions for parts in Suip 2, it’s the Woolworths trolleys that are parked in the shade. "
-extracted from http://www.chico.mweb.co.za/art/2...
He he. Good luck.
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