Where Shopping Carts Go to Rot

April 11, 2014

Photo Essay by Paul Wintruba, Moon News Cloud Contributor

The woods and shallow stream near the Robert Morris University campus and the local K-Mart is not where you’d expect to find discarded and rotting shopping carts.

But you will.

1.Visible in the shallow stream that flows between RMU’s Moon campus and Kmart, are the rotting remains of well over fifty shopping carts, in various stages of decay
Visible in the shallow stream that flows between RMU’s Moon campus and Kmart, are the rotting remains of well over fifty shopping carts, in various stages of decay

 

3.One of the many shopping carts buried in the mud, sporting the slightly faded red “K”
One of the many shopping carts buried in the mud, sporting the slightly faded red “K”
4.Two remnant portions carts that can be seen sinking into the muck and water
Two remnant portions carts that can be seen sinking into the muck and water

 

Looking up stream, more carts and a rotted out 55-gallon drum sit abandoned among other litter
Looking up stream, more carts and a rotted out 55-gallon drum sit abandoned among other litter
Uncompleted fall; a rusting cart embedded in the dirt part way down the hill
Uncompleted fall; a rusting cart embedded in the dirt part way down the hill
Climbing up towards the Kmart parking lot, two vibrant blue carts, one with only the wheels sunken down, are stagnant part way down the hill
Climbing up towards the Kmart parking lot, two vibrant blue carts, one with only the wheels sunken down, are stagnant part way down the hill
A pile of shopping carts in various stags of decay and sunken to various depths
A pile of shopping carts in various stags of decay and sunken to various depths
An older model cart sinking in a deep section of the stream
An older model cart sinking in a deep section of the stream