https://www.afinalwarning.com/527972.html (Natural News) A machine that “eats” garbage floating in the water has been cleaning up the bays of Baltimore. Called Mr. Trash Wheel, the 50-foot-long contraption has gobbled up more than three million pounds of trash in the historic Inner Harbor since its debut in 2014, according to CNET.
John Kellett, founder of Clearwater Mills, a locally owned and operated logistics company, invented Mr. Trash Wheel to combat marine pollution in the harbor. He observed that a river of trash would flow down from the Jones Falls tributary whenever it rained, but the city had no solution for that rubbish.
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In the continuing effort to clean up Baltimore s Inner Harbor, the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore on Thursday announced the addition of a fourth trash wheel. Not only have the trash wheels picked up a combined 1,600 tons of trash and debris from the Baltimore Harbor, but they ve also helped us support groups like Trash Free Maryland and Baltimore Beyond Plastic in their successful efforts to make Maryland the first state to ban foam takeout containers, said Adam Lindquist, director of the Healthy Harbor Initiative at the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore.The new trash wheel s name is a play on the Wizard of Oz character, Glinda the Good Witch changed to Gwynnda the Good Wheel of the West as she is located at the mouth of the Gwynns Falls in southwest Baltimore. We decided to put it here because the Gwynns Falls is a major contributor to the trash in the Inner Harbor. It goes out and around through Masonville Cove and comes around and blows into the Inner Harbor, s