Ways to Reuse a Shopping Cart
July 14, 2009 by James Bent - 7 Comments
Have you ever wanted to “steal” a shopping cart for no reason? Well, now you will have one! Alternatively, here are a few ideas how to recycle an old or broken shopping cart you happen to store in your garage…
This full-fledged ambitious engineering project called LOLrioKART: a funky, fun way to recycle a shopping cart and impress all your neighbors.
The motorized shopping cart consists of a big stack of NiCd aircraft batteries and a 15hp brushless motor rigged up to an old shopping cart with upgraded wheels.

Another shopping cart chair on steroids: Go Cart (check out the PDF for detailed instructions for building it )

Do you need a stylish upright chair for your garden? Try this DIY “Annie” chair (This one has no motor but it looks cool):

Cartbike looks like a cool alternative transportation method:

Shopping cart grill requires no special efforts but I felt tempted to include it here to show how useful it can turn out to be in various situation:

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Reader Comment
Tyler (July 15th, 2009, 01:50 pm)
Cooking with one is pretty clever.
cak (July 15th, 2009, 05:46 pm)
Shopping carts are quite expensive, on the order of $400 each. Pretty damn funny.
isaac (August 11th, 2009, 05:56 pm)
I made an entertainment center for big a… tv set, quite useful and easy to move when vacuum, i took the cage out for the tv and use the lower part as a shelf for the dvd
Hip Hop (August 22nd, 2009, 11:19 pm)
really funny
duncan (April 22nd, 2010, 02:48 am)
hmmm…should i put the shopping carts i found around my neighborhood to use like this? i could probably make a go-Kart
Shopping Cart (June 24th, 2010, 01:02 pm)
i think shopping Cart with bicycle is very good invent.
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