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Meet Mr. Trash Wheel: Baltimore Harbor's Googly Eyed Garbage Gobbler
Maryland lawmakers last month became the first in the country to approve a statewide ban on Styrofoam food containers.
And a local Baltimore celebrity may have had a little something to do with the new policy.
Mr. Trash Wheel — and his cousins Professor Trash Wheel and Captain Trash Wheel — have scooped up a million Styrofoam containers since the first one was installed on a tributary leading to the Baltimore Harbor in 2014.
Trash Wheel Family Reaches Styrofoam Container Collection Milestone
Waterfront Partnership’s Healthy Harbor Initiative announced the trash wheel family—Mr. Trash Wheel, Professor Trash Wheel and Captain Trash Wheel—has collected more than 1,000,000 Styrofoam containers since the first wheel launched in 2014.
This milestone comes around the same time that a Styrofoam ban bill passed the House and Senate. A final version of the bill will now need to be signed by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan to make the statewide ban official.
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