shopping carts

Not sure where to post this on this forum,but I'll try here. Maybe some will see this as a joke.

I live on an urban creek. As with all urban creeks, we've got homeless people living upstream and, when the water rises, their shopping carts get flushed down the creek. In the last year, I've been pulling many shopping carts out of the creek. Most are very old and corroded. Probably been underwater for a decade or more. While few are identifiable with the store they came from, it's very unlikely they'd want them back and, if they did, they'd probably just send them to the landfill. I understand that metal recyclers are reluctant to take these, because of property issues, but in this case we're talking about JUNK. So is there a recycling strategy that I can use with these? Actually, Walmart has a cart reconditioning program, though they'd probably just get a laugh ou of some of these majorly bedraggled carts. This is a major urban creek, and in just a block or two, I've already hauled about fifteen of them out. In the creek as a whole, there are likely hundreds of them.

I could call around to local recyclers, but I was hoping to get some generic wisdom here. I could just send them all to the landfill, but would rather not.

Thanks. This all makes good sense. Yes,I've heard that cutting them up is one strategy, but that's a PIA. I tell you, though, our urban creeks are FULL of these things (along with clothes, shoes, and various personal care items). You'd think if someone is going to take the trouble to steal one of these, they'd tie it up, if they're near a creek that floods.