Hello! My name is Mr. Trash Wheel, but you can call me Wheelium.
I am a free-wheeling, garbage-loving, solar- and hydro-powered trash interceptor. I permanently reside at the mouth of the Jones Falls stream in the Baltimore Harbor where I’ve been since May 2014. Not many two year olds can say they have eaten over 1,000,000 pounds of trash!
My creators at Clearwater Mills LLC first invented me with the purpose of eating trash before it entered the Baltimore Harbor and Chesapeake Bay. They observed how garbage flowed down the Jones Falls after a rainstorm, and how the Inner Harbor became clogged with trash and debris. Now I am joined by Professor Trash Wheel, my splendid, intelligent friend at the mouth of another stream called Harris Creek. Together, we intercept trash and debris from Baltimore City’s two most polluted waterways.
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