The second annual Shoal Creek Shopping Cart Corral was held on Saturday morning.
Community volunteers removed shopping carts from the creek, as well as other pieces of litter.
The event started after a 2021 report by the Watershed Protection Department found there were 500 shopping carts throughout Austin's creeks.
"If at all possible, we like to partner with the retailers to reclaim the carts and take them back to their stores to fix up and put back to use … That is really the main goal. Sometimes it's not possible, so we work with Austin Resource Recovery to recycle all the carts we collect during these events," Ivey Kaiser, executive director of the Shoal Creek Conservancy, said.
During last year's event, the Shoal Creek Conservancy recovered 48 shopping carts. For Saturday's event, the group told KVUE they collected 47 shopping carts along with 116 bags of trash, six tires, a mattress, six pallets, a car engine, two couches, a lawnmower, a wheelbarrow and a large roll of cable.
If you would like to volunteer, the conservancy cleans up Shoal Creek about two to three times a month.