The circle is complete. In a kind of funny, kind of sad bit of irony, Mr. Trash Wheel, the googly-eyed trash-collecting vessel at the mouth of the Jones Falls, gobbled up a beer can with his very own likeness on the label.

That means at some point, a person may have consumed a Mr. Trash Wheel’s Lost Python Ale, the American IPA brewed by Peabody Heights in collaboration with the trash wheel’s caretakers with Waterfront Partnership’s Healthy Harbor Initiative, and tossed the can on the ground.

The can then somehow ended up in the falls–through the sewer, perhaps–and into the mouth of Mr. Trash Wheel, who has dutifully collected nearly 1,000 tons of trash since 2014, preventing rubbish from entering the Inner Harbor. In that time, the wheel has gathered nearly 11 million cigarette butts, more than 900,000 polystyrene containers, more than 970,000 chip bags and, as the name of the beer implies, an actual snake that one time in 2015.

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