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Cart-recovery pilot collects nearly 2,000 carts; city and vendors debate long-term funding and retailer participation
Summary
Cart Repo reported 1,917 shopping carts removed from city rights-of-way since December; program leaders say 70% of recovered carts belong to a single retailer and urged a mixture of incentives and consequences to sustain the effort.
Shantel Mohammed, cofounder and chief financial officer of Cart Repo, told the Tulsa Authority for the Recovery (TARE) board on May 27 that her team has removed 1,917 shopping carts from public rights-of-way and other public locations since December 2024. "From December 2024 to April 2025, we've collected 1,917 carts from over 40 retailers," Mohammed said.
The pilot program, which the city funds through a purchasing agreement, bills the city a per-cart recovery fee (reported in the meeting as typically between $15 and $25 depending on volume and cart type). Cart Repo also reported that roughly 70% of recovered carts belonged to one large retailer; the company named a local partner retailer that has completed at least one buyback.
Why it matters: abandoned shopping carts create hazards in the right-of-way, add to stormwater pollution risk…
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