Googly-Eyed Trash Eaters May Clean a Harbor Near You
Known as "Mr. Trash Wheel," this floating device sucks up plastic from polluted harbors.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY THE WATERFRONT PARTNERSHIP
The rising star of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, known to locals as Mr. Trash Wheel, is a garbage gobbler with its own social media following. Built with $720,000 in public and private funds, the voracious device once filled 12 Dumpsters with trash in the 48 hours after a particularly heavy storm. Since its debut in 2014, it has pulled in more than a million pounds of trash and debris from the Jones Falls River. Expect that number to rise.