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Mr. Trash Wheel, a floating semi-autonomous trash interceptor permanently moored at the mouth of the Jones Falls in Baltimore's inner harbor, has removed 2,000 tons of debris since its 2014 installation — a total certified by Guinness World Records in December 2023.7:14 Designed by environmental scientist and shipbuilder John Kellett and commissioned by Baltimore's Waterfront Partnership, the machine uses two upstream containment booms to funnel floating debris toward a 14-foot water wheel.3:15 The river current turns that wheel, which powers a rake and conveyor belt that lifts trash into a dumpster barge.5:04 Solar panels power pumps that feed the wheel when current is insufficient.5:43 Between May 2014 and June 2015 alone, the machine collected 278 tons, including 5.7 million cigarette butts and 940 sports balls; its single-day record is 38,000 pounds.6:14 Three additional machines — Professor Trash Wheel, Captain Trash Wheel, and Gwynda the Good Wheel of the West — now operate around Baltimore Harbor.9:00 Trash output data proved its policy value when Maryland's 2020 foam container ban produced an 85% reduction in that material.9:20 In August 2015, a live python survived being scooped through the machine after a thunderstorm.10:14 Tim connects the project to the Annapolis Fall Sailboat Show and cleaner Chesapeake Bay waters.11:17

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