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Mr. Trash Wheel is a trash interceptor that removes trash from the Jones Falls river as it empties into the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland. It is powered by a water wheel and solar cells , and rakes trash from the harbor onto an onboard conveyor belt which routes it into a dumpster on the vessel.
Installed in May 2014, the water wheel trash interceptor known as Mr. Trash Wheel, officially the Inner Harbor Water Wheel, is the world's first permanent water wheel trash interceptor. [1] It sits at the mouth of the Jones Falls River in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. A February 2015 agreement with a local waste-to-energy plant is believed to make ...
If you see a googly-eyed boat cruising through Baltimore's Inner Harbor, you aren't imagining things. First deployed in 2008, Mr. Trash Wheel has collected over 1,600 tons, or well over 3 million ...
Since its creation in May 2014, Mr. Trash Wheel has removed more than a whopping 331 tons of garbage from the waters. Since its creation in May 2014, Mr. Trash Wheel has removed more than a ...
When the bins are almost full, local operators are informed with an automated message. They then empty them and send the waste to local waste management facilities. The Interceptor project is similar to a smaller-scale local project called Mr. Trash Wheel developed in 2008 for Maryland's Baltimore harbor.
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A fact from Mr. Trash Wheel appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 March 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Mr. Trash Wheel removed 19 tons of garbage from Baltimore's Inner Harbor in one day? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2017/March.