Trash or art? Shopping carts full of rotten food keep popping up, volunteers keep tearing them down

BATON ROUGE — Shopping carts filled with clothing, cans and rotting food have been showing up on streets across Baton Rouge, and a volunteer cleanup group is working to remove them.

Residents shared pictures with WBRZ showing the displays, which include poles tied together to create shapes and T-shirts hung like flags. Below the surface, rotting food and empty cans have raised concern for people who walk or drive past them.

Jennifer Richardson oversees the volunteer group Keep Tiger Town Beautiful. She says she cleaned up five of these displays on a Monday…

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