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09/28/2022

Our newest Trash Wheel starts "eating plastic" on the Juan Diaz River in Panama City, Panama!!

“Trash wheel” in Panama captures plastic in rivers before it reaches ocean; project advised by Benioff Oceans team

08/04/2022

Great piece from CNBC highlighting our Trash Wheels and the important work they do!

"While there's lots of public awareness regarding the massive garbage patches in our oceans, we tend to hear less about how it all ended up there. Every year, it’s estimated that up to 2.97 million tons of plastic enters the ocean through rivers. And about 1,000 hyper-polluting rives are responsible for nearly 80% of that.

While the ultimate solution to the waste problem undeniably depends on some combination of better waste infrastructure, more sustainable packaging, less consumption, and public awareness around proper disposal, in the meantime there’s a host of companies developing some pretty neat systems to capture wayward trash from rivers. I got to speak with three of them for this video.

Thanks to John Kellett, inventor of Baltimore's famous Mr. Trash Wheel, Sandra (Sandy) Watemberg of Marea Verde, Boyan Slat of The Ocean Cleanup, and D.C. Sekhar of AlphaMERS Ltd for speaking with me about their innovative river cleanup devices, and Silpa Kaza from the The World Bank and Tim van Emmerik of Wageningen University & Research for the expert analysis.

Watch the vid to hear from all these smart folks!"

https://youtu.be/nvB242RR31k

It’s estimated that every year, millions of tons of plastic enter the ocean through rivers, and as global waste generation increases, the problem is poised t...

06/16/2022

"The system with the biggest fan base may be the anthropomorphized Trash Wheels at the mouths of four Baltimore watersheds.......Together, Mr. Trash Wheel, Professor Trash Wheel, Captain Trash Wheel and Gwynnda the Good Wheel of the West, named for Gwynns Falls, have taken in more than 2,000 tons (1,800 metric tons) of trash, including 12.6 million cigarette butts and nearly 1.5 million plastic bottles."!!!

https://news.yahoo.com/river-trash-traps-chew-huge-030136866.html

11/13/2021

You go girl!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5inwSyB82s

Gwynnda the Good Wheel of The West has officially broken a trash collection record.

06/15/2021

"Sporting a gaping maw of a mouth, he's winning hearts and minds by improving the prized waterfront of Maryland's largest city. And by stopping trash before it can empty into the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, he's making a difference far from the city limits."

https://www.cnet.com/news/mr-trash-wheel-is-gobbling-up-millions-of-pounds-of-trash/

Trash interceptors are becoming more common in large cities, helping to stop garbage as it floats down waterways. Mr. Trash Wheel is the pride of Baltimore, helping to make a cleaner, more beautiful city waterfront.

06/04/2021

"Gwynnda is Baltimore’s largest trash wheel, capable of collecting approximately 300 tons of trash and debris from the Gwynns Falls each year — more than the consumption of the other three trash wheels combined."

https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/with-a-sprinkling-of-old-bay-baltimores-fourth-trash-wheel-is-christened-at-the-mouth-of-gwynns-falls/

Gwynnda the Good Wheel of the West, Baltimore newest trash wheel, on Thursday was officially welcomed to her permanent home at the mouth of the Gwynns Falls in the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River.

04/24/2021

Our kind of compliment!!

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/video/5518400-cute-and-trashy-mr-trash-wheel-gobbles-up-yucky-waste-from-river/?fbclid=IwAR1nZBP_jnrRWw5a9YE2Pic-brDFwmABsmOAhwslp-gom0O3Y7iqgoBY72o

Mr. Trash Wheel, officially called the Inner Harbor Water Wheel, is a trash interceptor, a vessel that removes trash from the Jones Falls river as it empties into the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland

04/08/2021

Honored to have had our friends on Pride of Baltimore ll es**rt Gwynnda to her new location!

04/08/2021

03/12/2021

Welcome, Gwynnda!!

https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/baltimores-newest-trash-wheel-gwynnda-the-good-wheel-will-be-installed-next-month/

Baltimore’s fourth trash wheel, Gwynnda the Good Wheel of the West, will clean the mouth of the Gwynns Falls starting next month.

11/12/2020

Great work Valerie & the Healthy Harbor Program!!

10/24/2020

In its formative stage - the newest member of the Trash Wheel family!!

10/08/2020

More good news from Mr. Trash Wheel!

https://chesapeakebaymagazine.com/video-nations-first-foam-ban-now-in-effect-in-md/

On October 1, Maryland officially put in effect the first statewide ban on foam food containers. And there's strong new evidence the ban will dramatically improve the harmful effects of foam in our…

09/08/2020

The city of Baltimore is taking on the problem of ocean plastics in a unique way -- mechanical trash-eating monsters. Mr. Trash Wheel, was installed in 2014 and removed over 1,000,000 pounds of trash from the harbor in its first few years of existence. Since then, more have been installed and the id...

09/02/2020

Who will join Mr. Trash Wheel, Captain Trash Wheel and Professor Trash Wheel in cleaning Baltimore's waterways this fall? The public gets to decide.

05/15/2020

Mr. Trash Wheel broke the record between April 1 and April 30, 2017 after removing 63.3 U.S. tons of debris from the mouth of the Jones Falls River.

03/03/2020

"Over the past 70 years, we’ve gotten hooked on disposable goods and packaging — as plastics became the lifeblood of an American culture of speed, convenience, and disposability that’s conquered the globe."

How Big Oil and Big Soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades