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Mr. Trash Wheel gobbles garbage all the live-long day

There has been a great renaissance in garbage collection technology in the past 10 years and Mr. Trash Wheel is one of the pioneers, collecting over 3 million pounds of trash in Baltimore, Maryland. An old technology becomes new again and is changing the landscape of the beautiful inner harbor. Read the CNET article publishing…

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There has been a great renaissance in garbage collection technology in the past 10 years and Mr. Trash Wheel is one of the pioneers, collecting over 3 million pounds of trash in Baltimore, Maryland. An old technology becomes new again and is changing the landscape of the beautiful inner harbor.

Read the CNET article publishing on Monday the 14th at 4am PT:
Mr. Trash Wheel is gobbling up millions of pounds of trash

Watch the full video interview with John Kellet publishing on Monday the 14th at 4am PT:
Meet Mr. Trash Wheel, the great garbage gobbler of Baltimore

Mr. Trash Wheel
Clearwater Mills
Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore

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49 Comments

  1. Jon Kraft

    June 13, 2021 at 1:23 pm

    So, what happens to the trash after it is collected? Is there an attempt to recycle or does it just go to the nearest landfill?

  2. Vlican

    June 13, 2021 at 1:43 pm

    this should be installed everywhere honestly…

    • Athul Krishna

      June 13, 2021 at 3:49 pm

      I couldn’t so one better
      Stop throwing trash

  3. Quicksilver0922

    June 13, 2021 at 2:14 pm

    God bless this man.

  4. no freespeech

    June 13, 2021 at 2:25 pm

    What how this destroys the rivers.

  5. David Chaney

    June 13, 2021 at 2:29 pm

    Cars don’t have trash cans, businesses no longer have trash cans in front or on their property, and if you use someone else’s dumpster you can get in trouble. Litterbugs are a problem too. Making garbage difficult to dispose of is a big part of the problem.

  6. Dirk Shaw

    June 13, 2021 at 2:38 pm

    We also need to educate the public to not litter.

    • Blood Angel

      June 13, 2021 at 4:06 pm

      Not going to happen.

  7. Neil Deep

    June 13, 2021 at 2:47 pm

    Can we get this for Long Beach, Huntington Beach, & Santa Monica

  8. Steven Mancera

    June 13, 2021 at 3:03 pm

    This man should be given a Presidential Medal of Freedom for his ingenious work and dedication with this someday

  9. Gary Korzelius

    June 13, 2021 at 3:46 pm

    This is really a fantastic invention. I applaud you! The shame is that if people would just man up and PROPERLY recycle, and/or dispose of their used items, things like this would not be necessary.

  10. Mangepange 123

    June 13, 2021 at 4:38 pm

    Omg I read about this like 6 years ago

  11. Toonami20

    June 13, 2021 at 4:59 pm

    The real test will be the pacific garbage patch. If all 3 of them can clean that up then they will become legendary

  12. Philus

    June 13, 2021 at 5:28 pm

    Anyone who lives in baltimore area know what a

  13. Nick Botha

    June 13, 2021 at 6:11 pm

    This is awesome, every city should set one up 🍺

  14. Charlie Ketchem

    June 13, 2021 at 7:36 pm

    I love this. 🙂

  15. Paul Ho

    June 13, 2021 at 8:22 pm

    Really wish Mr. Trash Wheel would eat the litterers instead of just the trash though.

  16. Somehow Logical

    June 13, 2021 at 8:33 pm

    Don’t feed him/her.

  17. M B

    June 13, 2021 at 9:13 pm

    What a guy. Thank you for your excellent invention. Will help the entire planet.

  18. Dizzy

    June 13, 2021 at 9:37 pm

    get one of these for the Ganga river in India, Chicago river and…. nevermind lets get one of these for every damn river.

  19. Kam

    June 13, 2021 at 10:25 pm

    Lol I had no idea what that thing was walking the harbor one night. Good stuff.

  20. David Jamgochian

    June 13, 2021 at 10:36 pm

    Clearwater , Fl

  21. mike m

    June 13, 2021 at 10:55 pm

    Setting The
    Mr Trash Wheel
    In Motion

  22. Ruben Rivera

    June 13, 2021 at 11:13 pm

    It now needs a Netflix series.

  23. Outta Thyme567

    June 13, 2021 at 11:34 pm

    As much as we applaud this kind of thing, does it merely give us a false sense of security? The only real solution is to reduce this pollution at the source, and to reduce plastic consumption in the first place

  24. Sean Brown

    June 13, 2021 at 11:35 pm

    I saw one of these in Thailand

  25. Edmund Cheung

    June 14, 2021 at 12:37 am

    John is my hero

  26. Ng Roy

    June 14, 2021 at 4:35 am

    The wall-e prototype

  27. Pitch Black

    June 14, 2021 at 6:15 am

    We all need to inspire from these kinds of saviours.

  28. Peipei Pengo

    June 14, 2021 at 8:49 am

    Very similar to the Ocean Cleanup Project

    • Nguyen Ngoc Kien

      June 15, 2021 at 12:52 am

      Actually OCP get idea from this. TrashWheel is made long ago. Also happy when see more and more people know about OCP.

  29. aquafishes

    June 14, 2021 at 9:09 am

    Cool…

  30. KrissowskiM

    June 14, 2021 at 9:20 am

    What sort of people/society are you? Last week I took a jet ski ride on Warta river in Poland – almost 130 kms (80 miles) – I have not seen a single piece of trash in the river for the duration of all that trip!

    Well – but it’s only people of one ethnicity, currently hated in your country, that live on the banks of that river!

  31. Robert Dietz

    June 14, 2021 at 1:00 pm

    Looks just like the Ocean Cleanup ones…except Cuter. Great Minds Do think Alike.

  32. Joey Lawell

    June 14, 2021 at 1:35 pm

    We need these in those floating cities in africa

  33. MICHAEL DOUGHERTY

    June 14, 2021 at 2:15 pm

    What a great idea!
    I live on a lake and boy we could use one!

  34. kevin zebrowski

    June 14, 2021 at 2:36 pm

    Lol, twelve people inexplicably disliked this

  35. M. Annie Johnson

    June 14, 2021 at 2:38 pm

    Love this!!! This should be used elsewhere!! Brilliant

  36. Satyam Mishra

    June 14, 2021 at 2:58 pm

    We need more people like him.

  37. wesley chin

    June 14, 2021 at 4:04 pm

    Put grates over the storm drains to prevent bulk trash from getting to the river

  38. Seoul Glo

    June 14, 2021 at 4:13 pm

    Plastic pollution problem plaguing the planet!

  39. Fritzroy

    June 14, 2021 at 4:53 pm

    Isnt this the same or similar device as the ocean clean up project??? Like it looks similar – crazy similar. But good for the community. Clean the trash, now clean the water itself.

  40. That American

    June 14, 2021 at 6:32 pm

    I see there is no mention of the new Plants Pioneered in Australia that can take all that plastic and single stream it through a process that turns it back into the oil from whence it came. Now all you have to do is get the litterbugs to stop being litter bugs.

  41. John Bernardin

    June 14, 2021 at 7:28 pm

    “A major shift in the plastic producing industry”?!!! What about PEOPLE using plastic bottles and styrofoam cups, etc, etc, etc… and just tossing them on the ground or not being careful to make sure they’re recycled properly! Don’t blame the litterbugs!!! No no no!!! It’s all some heartless cooperation, or coffee shop with to-go cups, or Costco selling cases of water bottles!

  42. hausaffe

    June 14, 2021 at 7:41 pm

    why no of the shelf screens on the outflows of the storm drains

  43. mokong kumag

    June 14, 2021 at 9:22 pm

    This is all awesome until when you realized that maybe only 10-20% of those plastic thrash are gonna be recycled and most of them will be dumped on other countries

  44. Ikbee

    June 14, 2021 at 9:35 pm

    If only it could drive through the streets of west Baltimore.

  45. paladro

    June 14, 2021 at 10:33 pm

    large googly eyes improve almost everything ) good on ya fella

  46. drane1210

    June 14, 2021 at 11:00 pm

    When Mr Trash Wheel has more clout than you so you go from Instagram to Tik Tok.

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