Maryland lawmakers recently became the first in the U.S. to approve a statewide ban on Styrofoam food containers — and a local Baltimore celebrity may have had something to do with it. (via hereandnow)
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 Baltimore Harbor in 2014. And a local Baltimore celebrity may have had a little something to do with the new policy.
"The photos that we take from those events — and data we collect — we share with elected officials who get angry, too," Lindquist says."They don't want to see all that Styrofoam ending up in our waterways."More than 850,000 plastic bottlesTrash floating in Baltimore's Inner Harbor is contained and funneled to the mouth of Mr. Trash Wheel.
Trash has flooded the Baltimore Inner Harbor for years. Motivated to clean up Baltimore's waters, John Kellett invented Mr. Trash Wheel to help prevent garbage from reaching the harbor. : Two booms extend from a floating barge on the Jones Falls, a nearly 18-mile-long stream which flows into the harbor. The booms extend all the way to the stream's concrete banks. Water can flow on into the bay, but the trash cannot.
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