To the Editor:<\/p>\n
I\u2019m writing in response to an Aug. 10 letter regarding shopping carts that are removed from store lots and \u201clittered\u201d on Allentown streets. City Council addressed this issue in the Anti Litter Ordinance. \u201cNo person shall use a shopping or grocery cart to transport groceries, goods or other items in the public right of way unless that person is the owner of the shopping or grocery cart.\u201d Ideally, the police should be notified (non-emergency 437-7751) and a first offense citation of $50 would be issued, if someone is using a shopping cart in this manner.<\/p>\n
If you see abandoned carts, call the Little Apple Market at 1-800-244-CART (2278). It will pick up all carts except Laneco\/Food Lane, and use them in their store until they are claimed by the owner. Laneco\/Food Lane should be notified directly to pick up its abandoned carts.<\/p>\n
For the pick up of broken, unusable carts, call the Bureau of Recycling and Solid Waste at 437-8729. They are taken to the Drop Off Center and recycled.<\/p>\n
ANN E. SAURMAN<\/p>\n
EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT COORDINATOR<\/p>\n
Allentown Bureau of Recycling and Solid Waste<\/p>\n
Allentown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the Editor: I\u2019m writing in response to an Aug. 10 letter regarding shopping carts that are removed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,139],"class_list":["post-287199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}