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‘Mr. Trash Wheel’ Gobbles Up 15 Tons of Trash Every Day From Harbors – And More Cities Are Adopting


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For years, the ambiguous but satisfied face of Mr. Trash Wheel has been an icon of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

The googly-eyed garbage collector has been gobbling up millions of pounds of the city’s river trash. during years, and led to the creation of various allies of the water wheel like Captain Trash Wheel and Prof. Trash Wheel.

The idea for a kind of garbage collector came from local inventor John Kellet, who would cross the walkway that runs through Jones Falls creek that feeds Baltimore Harbor and be upset to see the incessant flow of garbage floating towards him.

Kellet looked around to see if there were any potential solutions to the problem, but found none. It would end up not only giving the port a brighter, trash-free look, but also one of the city’s biggest celebrities and social media icons, though he admitted it wasn’t his idea to put googly eyes on the barge.

GNN reported in 2017 that Mr. Trash Wheel turns based on the energy extracted from the current of the river. If enough electricity cannot be generated from the river alone, the wheel uses solar energy instead.

Kellet, who’s running Clearwater Mills, also manufactures cages specially designed to fit into storm drain drains, which is the source of most of the garbage pollution in the port.

His idea has been so successful that several other organizations are building their own Mr. Trash Wheel. Coming up on the Gwynns Falls River in Maryland is Gwynda the Good Wheel of the West, while Oakland, California, is building a called Trasharella.

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The first international Mr. Trash Wheel arrives in Panama, with “Mrs. Rueda ”or“ Doña Rueda ”.

“I never imagined we would have googly eyes on this machine, with a name and a beer [named after it], and the garbage wheel t-shirts and a garbage wheel fan club and a garbage wheel fan festival, it’s beyond my wildest dreams, ”Kellet said in the documentary about CNET.

Behind the Mr. Trash Wheel brand is one of the most important concepts in modern pollution theory: that rivers deposit most of the existing trash in the oceans. Nonprofit Cleaning the ocean, which operates sophisticated green energy river trash interceptors, explains on its website that thousand of the world’s rivers source of 80% of all trash found in the ocean.

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The documentary suggests pressuring local politicians to install a Mr. Trash Wheel by sending them some of the facts, such as the technology’s ability to collect 38,000 pounds of trash per day, or even the fact that it has the ability to become a social network. influencer for your city.

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