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It's not all bad - Mr. TrashWheel

POSTED BY: CAPTAINCRUNCH
UPDATED: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 15:46
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019 10:08 AM

... stay crunchy...

http://www.baltimorewaterfront.com/healthy-harbor/water-wheel/

USING THE POWER OF NATURE TO KEEP OUR HARBOR CLEAN
The Inner Harbor Water Wheel, or “Mr. Trash Wheel” to locals, combines old and new technology to harness the power of water and sunlight to collect litter and debris flowing down the Jones Falls River.

The river’s current provides power to turn the water wheel, which lifts trash and debris from the water and deposits it into a dumpster barge. When there isn’t enough water current, a solar panel array provides additional power to keep the machine running. When the dumpster is full, it’s towed away by boat, and a new dumpster is put in place. Voilà!

WHERE DOES THE TRASH COME FROM?
Trash comes from people who throw garbage on the ground instead of putting it in a trash can or recycling bin. When it rains, water carries this garbage off streets and into storm drains, which flow unfiltered into neighborhood streams. These streams carry the trash into the Baltimore Harbor and the Chesapeake Bay.

The Jones Falls begins as a stream in Baltimore County, and is fed by other streams until it becomes a small river in Baltimore City. Although much of the river is hidden beneath the Jones Falls Expressway, the Jones Falls Watershed is much larger than the river. A watershed is an area of land that all drains to the same body of water.

The map on the left shows the Jones Falls Watershed, which drains fifty-eight square miles of land. Garbage collected by Mr. Trash Wheel could come from anywhere in the Jones Falls Watershed area.

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Wednesday, January 23, 2019 11:15 AM

THG

Thumbs up...

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Wednesday, January 23, 2019 11:22 AM

REAVERFAN

Remember seeing this awhile ago. What's disturbing is the amount of trash collected. Too many trumptards just throw trash anywhere.

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Wednesday, January 23, 2019 2:34 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

That's a stupid thing to say.

Some people recycle, some people don't.

Hell... I'll even put my cigarettes out by rolling them around till the ash falls out and then putting the butts in my pocket until later if there isn't a trash can around.

Working where I work, I wonder how many virtue signalling idiots are the same ones that have to buy stuff with perfect packaging and leave the broken or less than perfect ones to get thrown out. ESPECIALLY the water. That's right... the shit gets thrown out.

I always buy the broken packages. If the containers inside are sound, I don't need a perfect cardboard box to recycle when I'm done with it.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Wednesday, January 23, 2019 3:38 PM

WISHIMAY

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I always buy the broken packages. If the containers inside are sound, I don't need a perfect cardboard box to recycle when I'm done with it.

People don't buy broken containers because of the risk OF BACTERIA, genius. Grocery store floors may look clean but are far from it.

Anyway, there needs to be one of those wheels on every river. We had a flood stage last year and we ended up driving along the muddy Ohio and there was. soooo. much. crap. floating along everywhere. It looked like some trash cans had been caught up on the waters. One of the main roads into town here they never collect the trash on, it's amazing they can mow through it. Dirty morons...

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Wednesday, January 23, 2019 3:46 PM

THG

Quote:
Originally posted by WISHIMAY:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I always buy the broken packages. If the containers inside are sound, I don't need a perfect cardboard box to recycle when I'm done with it.

People don't buy broken containers because of the risk OF BACTERIA, genius. Grocery store floors may look clean but are far from it.

Anyway, there needs to be one of those wheels on every river. We had a flood stage last year and we ended up driving along the muddy Ohio and there was. soooo. much. crap. floating along everywhere. It looked like some trash cans had been caught up on the waters. One of the main roads into town here they never collect the trash on, it's amazing they can mow through it. Dirty morons...

Not a surprise that a troll takes issue with clean water.

T

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