Innovation in Hume: Welcoming Mayor Cr Carly Moore to the IPS Factory
Sustainable Manufacturing in Action
We were thrilled to recently welcome the Mayor of Hume City Council, Cr Carly Moore, to the Innovative Plastic Solutions (IPS) factory on Sydney Road where Supercart products are made.
The delegation was given a first hand look at our specialized manufacturing process, which centers on turning recycled Australian post-consumer plastic into high-quality retail solutions. It was a fantastic opportunity to showcase how we are innovating through local design and recycled materials to create tangible applications for upcycled plastic—all while supporting local jobs.
Spotlight: The New Australian-Designed 215L Trolley
The highlight of the tour was our newest addition to the fleet: the 215L shopping trolley.
As pictured above, this trolley represents the pinnacle of our current sustainability efforts. It isn't just assembled here; the 215L model is:
Proudly Designed in Australia: Engineered specifically for the needs of the Australian retail market.
Locally Moulded: Injection moulded on-site at our Sydney Road facility.
100% Post-Consumer Plastic: Crafted from recycled Australian materials, giving new life to local waste.
By combining local design expertise with advanced recycling technology, we are proving that the circular economy can thrive right here in Hume.
Want to learn more about our recycled product range?
Introducing the all new 215L trolley.
The all new 215L trolley has landed. It’s the largest shopping trolley in our range and offers dual child seat as standard.
Our trolleys just got bigger and better with the addition of our new 215L shopping trolley. It’s designed and manufactured in Australia with the same great styling, rugged design and nimble handling as its smaller siblings, while adding a larger basket and a dual child seat as standard
Made From Recycled Plastic
The 215L trolley is sustainable too, with all of the HDPE plastic parts being made entirely from recycled Australian post-consumer waste. This includes kerbside waste collection where single use packaging like milk and juice bottles are upcycled into our shopping trolleys helping us to close the loop. Each trolley contains the equivalent of 205 two-litre milk bottles worth of recycled plastic.
Features
Larger basket to carry more shopping that's still skinny enough to be travelator compliant and fit down narrow isles.
Dual child seat as standard.
Optional produce divider for organising groceries.
Available with standard or travelator wheels.
Compatible with various accessories including baby capsules, cup holders and coin locks.
Independently certified to the EN1929 European standard for shopping trolleys.
Available in custom colours and with custom branding stickers.
Lighter and quieter than comparable sized steel trolleys.
The 215L trolley is available to order now. Get in contact with our team to place your order or peruse the other trolleys and handbaskets on our website.
Vantage Point Community Care receives a donation of two 90L trolleys
Supercart Australia donates two 90L trolleys to Vantage Point Community Care to support their foodbank program.
We’re delighted to donate two of our 90L Australian made recycled shopping trolleys to support Vantage Point Community Care with their foodbank program. The trolleys are used to help volunteers moves food items that are provided to those in need.
Vantage Point Community operates a foodbank program in multiple locations around Melbourne that gives access to fresh food, groceries and meals to people experiencing food insecurity and for those experiencing isolation for social cohesion and community participation.
You can find out more about Vantage Point Community Care and their activities on their website.
Nourishing Neighbours receives donation of 2 x 180L trolleys
Supercart Australia donates two 180L trolleys and a number of handbaskets to Nourishing Neighbours.
We’ve donated two of our 180L Australian made recycled trolleys and a number of handbaskets to Nourishing Neighbours as part of our ongoing commitment to supporting local charitable and community organisations.
Nourishing Neighbours is a 100% volunteer run organisation, offering dietary and culturally appropriate emergency food relief, toiletries and period products based in Melbourne.
Our donated trolleys are used to assist Nourishing Neighbours clients load their groceries into their cars and help the volunteers transport weekly purchases.
You can find out more about Nourishing Neighbours on their website or facebook.
Kingborough Community Care receives donation of 25 x 180L trolleys
Supercart Australia donates 25 of their 180L trolleys to Kingborough Community Care.
We’re pleased to donate 25 of our 180L Australian made recycled shopping trolleys to support the activities of Kingborough Community Care. The volunteers and community love the bright colours and how easy the light weight design is to handle.
The donated trolleys help Kingborough Community Care run their weekly food assistance program that provides fresh food and staples for those in need. Kingborough Community Care is a volunteer-based not for profit organisation run by the Kingborough Family Church in Hobart.
Riverside Christian Church uses Supercart trolleys to help community member in need
Riverside Community Church are the latest recipients of a Supercart trolley donation to assist in their charitable activities. We’re proud to be able to support the tireless efforts of the unsung heroes like Jim Cameron who are on the ground helping the community.
As a part of our ongoing efforts to support charitable initiatives, we are proud to have been able to support Riverside Christian Church with a trolley donation to assist in the collection and distribution of goods for emergency food donations. We received the following testimonial from Jim Cameron at Riverside Community Care:
We have just recently started giving food parcels to families in need.
We searched high and low to try and purchase a trolley but found it almost impossible. Fortunately the impossible was done by Theodoor and the Team at Supercart.
Without any hesitation, Theodore very generously donated a trolley so that our community can easily donate goods for those who are struggling with the challenge of day to day rising costs..
Within a few weeks the trolley was filled many times and we have now been able to give away 17 emergency food parcels.
The trolley holds a pride of place at our front entrance promoting our Community Care arm..
Thank you Theodoor and Supercart for making it easier to collect goods for our community.
Jim Cameron of Riverside Christian Church using a donated Supercart trolley to assist in emergency food parcel distribution.
New World Kaikohe receives Supercart trolley fleet
Supercart trolleys have found their way across the ditch yet again, this time end up at New World in Kaikohe NZ!
New World in Kaikohe NZ is one of the latest New World stores to receive a new fleet of Australian made Supercart shopping trolleys and handbaskets made from 100% recycled post-consumer plastic.
Their new fleet consists of trolleys and handbaskets moulded in New World red:
40 x 90L trolleys
60 x 180L trolleys
100 x 30L handbaskets
Supercart trolleys are increasingly becoming the first choice for trolleys in the oceanic region. With a tight supply chain and proven, sustainable product it’s easy to see why!
Supercart trolleys featured in customer adverts
Supercart Australian made trolley are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, featuring in national TV campaigns for both Woolworths and IGA.
Bringing a new and innovative product to market is a hard slog, but to see the ubiquity of our trolleys grow as they begin to passively appear in customer marketing just confirms that our trolleys have become the preferred choice for many Australian supermarkets. Needless to say, we're stoked when our products appear on national TV!
You can see our trolleys featured in advertising campaigns by Woolworths and IGA - the latter featuring Shane Jacobson.
Woolworths Rewards - Back To School Program
IGA - Win the Cost of Your Shop Back
IGA - Where the Locals Matter
Australian Made Week
As proud supporters of the Australian Made Campaign, we’re thrilled to see our Handbaskets featured in the campaign launch video with Adam Liaw. Australian Made Week 2022 is running June 6 - 12 celebrating all things Australian made and grown.
Running from June 6 to 12, Australian Made Week run by the Australian Made Campaign is a celebration of Australian makers and growers all around the country!
According to Roy Morgan research, 70% of Australians have prioritised purchasing Australian made products, with 93% preferring to buy products made in Australia and 89% believing that more manufacturing should be undertaken in Australia.
We couldn’t agree more - when you support Australian industry, you get great products like our Shopping Basket that’s made in Victoria from 100% recycled Australian post-consumer waste that can be seen in the background and on Adams arm in the video below ↓
There are a myriad of reasons to support local manufacturing, some of which have become alarmingly apparent in these turbulent times.
Supports the local economy
Creates local jobs
Drives innovation
Improved sustainability and ethical outcomes
Enhanced supply chain transparency
More resilient supply chain
Shorter lead times
With our customers support, we’ve upcycled over 3,000,000 two litre milk bottles worth of plastic and with your help, we can prevent even more waste and provide you with a good product to boot.
Foodworks Grantville makes the sustainable switch by going local
Foodworks Grantville are the latest in an ever growing list of customers making the switch to locally made sustainable shopping trolleys. Each trolley sold ensures an ever increasing amount of post-consumer waste is upcycled instead of languishing in landfill.
It never fails to delight seeing another customer make the switch to Australian made sustainable shopping trolleys! Foodworks Grantville are committed to supporting local with their new fleet consisting of 80 trolleys and 60 handbaskets. They're also helping to combat waste by upcycling 9,496 two litre milk bottles worth of post-consumer plastic.
Is this peak sustainability? Savers now using Supercart recycled shopping trolleys.
One of the original sustainable retailers just got more sustainable with a new fleet of Supercart trolleys.
We’re absolutely thrilled to see our trolleys in store at one of the original proponents of sustainable shopping -Savers Australia!
Whilst recycling is a great way to deal with unavoidable waste, reuse of products is even better as it prevents waste in the first place.
The new store in Preston VIC is equipped with a fleet of 72 Mini XL and 18 Mid XL trolleys that are the equivalent of 8,064 two litre milk bottles worth of upcycled plastic.
Donation to Bill & Merelyn
Supercart is pleased to donate one Mini hybrid trolley to retiree couple Bill & Merelyn in recognition of their honesty in seeking to purchase a trolley rather than pinching one from their local store.
We were contacted recently by retiree Bill about buying a trolley for himself and his wife Merelyn. Bill and Merelyn wanted to purchase the trolley to make it easier to cart home their shopping since the local shopping centre is only a few streets away.
It’s quite unusual for individuals to purchase shopping trolleys, so we were pleasantly surprised to learn that Bill and Merelyn wanted to purchase the trolley, rather than the alternative of simply wheeling one home from the local shops. Not only is that theft, but quite often, people who take trolleys from their local Supermarket leave them strewn about the neighbourhood. The end result is an unsightly mess and a potential hazard as unsecured trolleys could roll onto the road creating a traffic risk or into other stationary objects causing property damage.
So to Bill and Merelyn we say good on ya, this trolley is on us!
Recycled trolleys praised by shoppers: 'awesome'
Shoppers love that Supercart trolleys are made in Australia from recycled Australian plastic. Who’d have thought right? Our trolleys are in increasingly more stores across the countries including Woolworths, Coles, IGA, Foodworks, Harris Farms and so many other great independent stores too!
If you haven’t yet had the pleasure of gliding around a Woolworths store featuring our wonderful lightweight recycled shopping trolleys, check out this TikTok from Woolworths and you’ll be green with envy that your local Woolworths hasn’t made the switch yet.
@woolworths_au 152 bottles = 1 trolley. That's a lot of cereal 🤔 #woolworths #woolies ♬ original sound - Woolworths_au
You can read more about Woolworths customers thoughts on their sustainable trolleys through the TikTok comments and on this article from Yahoo News.
Makers of the only Triple Grouse® rated trolleys!
We’re proud to be the recipients of Australias only Triple Grouse rated trolleys. Feedback from customers is so meaningful to us and it’s what drives us to make better, more sustainable products.
It's official, our trolleys are the only Triple Grouse rated trolleys in Australia!
☑ They're made from recycled plastic
☑ They're made in Australia
☑ And they go straight when you push them!
Thanks to Mike for calling into 3AW 693 Grouse or Shouse segment to share his thoughts and to Coles for including our local and sustainable products in their Moonee Ponds store among others!
The full episode of 3AW Breakfast for Wednesday July 7th where the call was featured is available to for listening on all major podcast platforms.
Woolworths opens new eco-store in Brisbane
West Village in Brisbane is the latest sustainable Woolworths store to open featuring our shopping trolleys made in Australia from locally recycled plastic.
Woolworths latest store to feature our Australian made trolleys made from locally recycled milk bottles has opened in West Village, QLD. This store design continues with the sustainable design trend of other recent Woolworths stores that have introduced a spread of new measures that reduce the environmental impact, achieving an average green house gas reduction of 15%.
#WATCH: The supermarket changing the way it operates to meet customers’ expectations.@9_jennmartinez has the story. #9News pic.twitter.com/jP04WNRGvH
— 9News Queensland (@9NewsQueensland) May 12, 2021
Woolworths Melbourne Square
Opened in December 2020, Melbourne Square is one of Woolworths latest store to feature Supercart Australian made recycled shopping trolleys and with handbaskets made under the Waste to Worth initiative where broken online shopping totes are recycled into new handbaskets!
Opening in December 2020, Woolworths Melbourne Square pushes the natural evolution of shopping with Supercart recycled hybrid trolleys featuring phone holders for their new Scan&Go technology, allowing shoppers to use an app on their phone like a checkout. This store is extra special because it features handbaskets that are made from the recycled material from the broken online totes.
Our trolleys even received praise in a viral video by TikTok user ZippySquid showcasing Woolworths new Scan&Go technology where the user also highlighted that the trolleys are made from recycled plastic:
“They’re much lighter and manoeuvrable, also they have great automatic front and back roll brakes,” they said in the comments.
“Great for the escalator.”
-ZippySquid
To checkout our recycled trolleys and basket and to try it the technology for yourself head on over to Woolworths Melbourne Square store. You can read more about the viral video on Yahoo News.
Woolworths Inglewood receives Supercart trolleys featuring new scan-n-go technology
Supercart trolleys are featured by 9 News Perth on March 11th 2021, in a story covering the rollout of no-contact shopping at Inglewood.
Woolworths Inglewood in Western Australia is the latest supermarket to receive the new Scan-N-Go technology that allows customers to manage checkouts individually on their own phones.
To aid the technology, phone holders have been fitted to the handles of the Supercart trolleys that allows shoppers to dock their phone for convenience when shopping. Supercart trolleys are compatible with a wide range of off the shelf and 3rd party accessories thanks to the standardised steel handle design.
Coles Opens Sustainability Flagship Store At Moonee Ponds
Coles has officially opened it’s new format flagship store located at Moonee Ponds in Melbourne. Heralding the launch of the ‘Together to Zero’ strategy, Coles is working toward cutting it’s emissions and waste through many innovations featured in store.
Coles has officially opened it’s new format flagship store located at Moonee Ponds in Melbourne. This new store heralds the launch of the ‘Together to Zero’ strategy which involves working with suppliers toward achieving zero emissions, zero waster and zero hunger.
Coles are taking meaningful steps to achieving these goals through new targets and tangible changes in store including:
Net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
All operations powered by 100% renewables by 2025
Package-less refill stations for detergents and body washes
Reduced packaging for fresh produce
Shopping bags made from 80% recycled content
Trolley baskets made from 90% recycled milk bottles and 10% REDcycle soft plastics
Staff polo shirts from 65% recycled bottles
Leftover edible food donated to SecondBite to distribute to local community organisations
Signed an agreement with Lal Lal Wind Farms near Ballarat to purchase energy that will cover 45% of it’s total consumption by FY2023
It’s an absolutely tremendous effort by Coles toward improving it’s sustainability outcomes and it’s great to see this kind of competition ramping up which has a net positive benefit for all.
Donation to Vinnies Moss Vale
We’re pleased to donate one Mid sized hybrid trolley to Vinnies Moss Vale.
Sustainability isn't just about conserving the environment. In fact, there are four pillars of sustainability that also include the social, human, and economic pillars.
Our business is naturally suited to addressing the environmental and economic aspects of sustainability, so we jump at the opportunity to contribute in other areas whenever we can.
Vinnies Moss Vale in the Southern Highlands are the latest recipients of a trolley donation that will assist their team in transporting cleaning equipment. Vinnies perform an important role through support services to the community and we're proud that we can contribute to their important work.
Barossa Fresh Foodland recieves green trolley fleet
Barossa Fresh Foodland receives new trolley fleet consisting of 50 Mini and 100 Mid sized hybrid trolleys all made from 100% recycled HDPE. The two-tone green colour scheme looks fresh and synergises perfectly with their brand message!
Barossa Fresh Foodlands new trolley fleet really pops with this vibrant colour combination of light and dark green. It's the perfect colour synergy for purveyors of fresh and trolleys made from recycled plastic that are the literal definition of green!
The new trolley fleet consists of 50 Mini and 100 Mid sized hybrid trolleys all made from 100% recycled HDPE which is the equivalent of 18,900 x 2L milk bottles worth of plastic saved from landfill.
