SUPERMARKET trolleys dumped in Darebin Creek will be rounded up and polluters will be told to clean up their act under newly funded environmental projects.
The “trolley muster” is expected to bag hundreds of trolleys left to rust in the creek, said Therese Grinter, a spokeswoman for the Darebin Creek Management Committee.
She said the trolleys trapped debris, were unsightly and tempted others to use the creek as a dumping ground.
The committee received a $3870 state government grant to collect trolleys from the creek between Donnybrook and Bundoora.
It also got $3180 to place nesting boxes for sugar gliders, possums, bats and birds along the creek.
The Merri Creek Management Committee received $9720 to tackle pollution in Edgars Creek in Thomastown. Committee manager Luisa Macmillan said small to medium industries were behind the pollution.
She said studies had shown high levels of heavy metals and toxic pollutants including arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury and zinc were spewing from stormwater drains into the creek.
The grant will be used to educate industry owners about mistakes such as people grinding metal outside where rain could then wash the metal fragments into drains, or chemical containers leaking.
