Check out The Ocean Cleanup Interceptor. The project get some idea from Mr Trash Wheel but with some improvement Idea that make it more flexible of where to put it.
@@TheTaekwon3Yeah, certain types of people will continue to behave like that regardless of people like the developers of real constructive solutions. Doesn't mean we need to give up on great ideas. Too cynical a way to look at it.
Kudos to all the people involved in this project and also all the people that actually go out of their way to put trash in the trash cans around the city
So much so that I'd like to know who came up with the design concept first. I've never heard of this guy or Mr. Trash Wheel until today, whereas I heard and learned about Ocean Cleanup several years ago. The young man that developed that system has a much more refined design making me think his was first and Mr. Trash is a COPY. I wonder if there are any Patent issues here ?
@@SnowTiger45 Mr. Trash Wheel has been sitting on the Jones Falls since 2014. The Interceptor, Ocean Cleanup's river mouth equivalent, was unveiled in 2019.
Ocean Cleanup was all about cleaning out in the oceans. Not until after they learned about Mr. Trash Wheel did they decide to duplicate the river approach.
I’m a light rail train operator for MDOT MTA in Baltimore. The light rail crosses over lots o bridges traveling south to BWI Airport and Cromwell. The I saw the Mr. Trash wheel for the first time about a month ago in the water way below a bridge I was crossing and the waters a 100% move cleaner than in the pass, I could see so much trash floating in the water ways compared to now. It really makes a difference in the way the cities water ways look especially for visitors to our city that are riding the train from the airport to downtown Baltimore. More trash wheels need to be put into action to keep the city looking beautiful.
@PJ Train But people don’t do that. They dump their trash in the water thinking it doesn’t have an effect or matter. This is incorrect because all the Plastic is choking the Ecosystem and Sea-life. Because Plastic doesn’t decompose easily. It takes decades to decompose. And Plastic bags and Strings frequently ensnare and kill Sea-life as well as Seabirds. Some people are working on something that will decompose Plastic and break it down faster but so far I’m not aware of anything practical available yet. But you’re right that prevention in the first place would solve most of the problem. Unfortunately, people don’t bother doing that. Hence the problem remains. This Trash Wheel idea is a good step in the right direction at least! I’ve recycled all my trash for years and never dumped motor oil into the ground or water. I’ve done what I can.
this brings tears to my eyes....l just finished watching the big ocean clean up system no2 which was successful and is out at it again cleaning and scoopoing it all up...am so excited for the marine life out there that has been suffering due ot these plastics. love from Australia THANK GOF FOR YOU JOHN
Hi, American friends! Input from Germany: We got grates on the storm-drain covers, keeping debris out. Plus, underneath every grate is a basket with holes that collects smaller debris. This has to regularly get cleaned by a special crew, of course, or it will clog. In any case: This keeps a lot of junk from getting into the sewage system in the first place. Great project, that Mr Trash Wheel, though! Props! ♥️
You should do what we do in Australia. Drink containers have a deposit on them, although this is not in all states. City drains have grates across them stop anything large getting into the drain. Road sweepers are sent regularly to clean the rubbish from the gutters. On top of that we have very large fines for anyone caught littering. This machine is a great idea but it would be even better to reduce the problem before it gets to the waterway.
That's exactly what we do in America. Problem is, we have a large portion of people, usually tending to be of a certain ethnicity, who don't care about anything but destroying everything around them, all while contributing absolutely nothing of value to their communities....
I was in Venice, Italy when I was a kid. I thought it was such a beautiful city except there was so much trash floating in the canals. Back then they had a boat that had a cage on the front and it would skim the trash. Fast forward 46 years. I was in Venice for the second time in 2019 during Carnival, which is their busiest season, and there wasn't so much as a cigarette butt floating in the water and I was looking for it! When you arrive at Marco Polo airport you are told you will not litter or else, and people don't. The pigs in Baltimore are just like the pigs here in DC. They use the storm drains as trash cans. Out of sight, out of mind. They think nothing of dumping all their car's trash at the curb. A few blocks from the White House where I live I clean 7 blocks (14 sides) each and every day -right down to the cigarette butts, and without fail I collect no less than two stuffed 13 gallon kitchen trash bags. You name it, I have picked it up. I'll find a coke bottle just a few feet from the public trash can because they couldn't be bothered to walk the three feet. I used to go canoeing on the Potomac and come back with my entire canoe full of trash I picked off the river. I think the children need to be educated on the consequences of littering and have field trips to witness and help clean up the mess so then maybe they'll think twice before throwing that trash on the ground and having it ever make it to the water. I was inspired to clean up other people's trash by the crying Indian (really an Italian actor) Keep America Beautiful commercials back in the '70's. I wish they would come up with some modern version using some famous rapper to inspire the youth not to litter like their elders.
I'm sure the 'Give a Hoot-Don't Pollute' campaign of the 70s must be one of the most successful public campaigns ever' I remember in the early 70s, EVERYONE threw trash out the car window. The sides of every highway were littered, as were the gutters of every city. It is unfortunate that littering seems to be creeping back. You're right, we need a new campaign, especially with new immigrants who come from countries were littering is the norm. I'm not anti immigrant but lived in an area where there were many and I saw it all day, every day.
You’re so right. People in the US throw their trash everywhere. It’s so shameful. Go to the mall just after it closes and you’ll see an empty parking lot with starbucks cups and baby diapers… people just tuck them under their car & drive off. What has happened to good manners and courtesy? In college I had a roommate who always wore Tshirts with “save the earth”, etc printed on them. Caught her one day throwing her trash out of her car window & told her what a hypocrite she was. She wasn’t even embarrassed.
I live in Baltimore county and I was today years old learning about this. I haven't been to the harbor in years I don't have a reason to go into the city. This is awesome. Going to the harbor next summer and check out the difference.
This is truly heroic work. This needs to be everywhere a river empties into the ocean around the world! While not the ultimate solution, it is definitely needed as an intermediate step as we humans seem to need more time to change our habits. Thank you for featuring this CNET!
@@Angelcynn_ I've seen them and it's abhorrent but "almost solely responsible" sounds like not even close to true, especially considering the US produced the most trash over the entire period of history in which things like plastic were in use.
@@thorr18BEM Asia currently accounts for 3/4 of the plastic being dumped in the oceans. The entire western world amounts to 2-3% at most, with the USA not even contributing 1%. Stopping just Nigeria or Egypt from dumping plastic in the oceans would have more of an impact than doing it for all western countries. What's the point you're making anyway? Do you want to put these machines in rivers that barely have any plastic in them because they did 50 years ago? How about stopping the plastic where it actually is?
This has been around quite awhile. It is epic in it's simplicity. Asia, India, the Philippines and all Latin America, okay the world would benefit. Kudos!
Gwynnda the Good Wheel of the West was actually the fourth Trash Wheel installed in Baltimore, after Professor Trash Wheel in Canton, and Captain Trash Wheel in Masonville Cove.
More people need to know about this. It's an amazing accomplishment, but sad that local governments and big business didn't take action until an upstanding member of the public took action on their own. Well done!
@@tgsoon2002 actually the interceptor is a poor rip off of this, costs more and is not as effective. This has been in use for longer and is very robust.
If for every million people TALKING about environment in the social media, the media, and the government, we have ONE John Kellett, the world will be a much cleaner place. Go John!!!
On 5/29/2921 CBS This Morning ran a piece worth watching. A woman in Kenya is making building blocks from plastic waste. They are building affordable housing with them. How this woman figured it out is amazing.
Happy for John. King Solomon, as an old man said, "Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion."
Great work! I love every effort being made to clean our planet. But immediately after the intro mr. Kellet gave, I was thinking: why are the storm drains spilling directly into the harbour rather than into a waste pond with spill sluice and land-based conveyor system? Way easier to replace dumpsters on land. A bit like a return filter in a hydraulic system. Should be cheaper to maintain and power as well.
Look at the amount of trash that thing is cleaning up, then reflect on the fact that, before Mr. Trash Wheel came along, all that trash was heading out into the ocean.
Its truly chilling to think that that before Mr. Trash Wheel and friends came to gobble up trash, that massive amount of trash were all being deposited into the ocean.
Very wonderful initiative!! It should be spread to the world! There was this 17 year old kid genius who was trying the same too. Hope all these good intitiatives succeed for a safe and beautiful world for all life!!
@@marcoferrao the interceptor from ocean cleanup came after this Mr Trash Wheel But whatever we need all the need we can and we need many thousands of these kind of machine.
aesthetically pleasing. When people are emotionally connected, they will embrace and financially support a solution to a problem with networking/promoting, protection, pride and a sense of urgency.
Wow, I love this. Finally, someone has come up with a real solution to a problem. Good job. If they made these for land and turned it loose in Cali half of LA and SF would be gone in a week...