[plantyhamchuk]

Mr. Trash Wheel is gobbling up millions of pounds of trash

Trash interceptors are becoming more common in large cities, helping to stop garbage as it floats down waterways. Mr. Trash Wheel is the pride of Baltimore, helping to make a cleaner, more beautiful city waterfront.

“ Since its installation Mr. Trash Wheel has intercepted over 3 million pounds of trash, making the harbor not only cleaner and more beautiful, but also a nicer home for local wildlife as well as waterfront businesses. Four different wheels now sit in Baltimore’s rivers, and soon more will be helping clean other cities across the globe. “

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“If you go to MrTrashWheel.com you can actually download a spreadsheet of every dumpster we’ve pulled out of the harbor over the past seven years, with an estimate of different types of trash that was in that dumpster,” Lindquist said. “We know that we’ve pulled out over a million styrofoam containers from the harbor, and that’s the sort of information, data and photos that we share with our elected officials to let them know just how big of a problem this is.”

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“Mr. Trash Wheel has a few relatives in Baltimore, including Professor Trash Wheel, the first female Trash Wheel; Captain Trash Wheel, who’s nonbinary; and Gwynnda The Good Wheel of the West, who was recently the star of a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark her installation. They all have their own likes and dislikes on their public profiles online.

They’re also hungry, with a reputation for being able to gobble up larger pieces of trash, including a guitar, a full-size beer keg and on one occasion a ball python who escaped from its owner and made a home for itself on the warm battery casing of one of the Trash Wheels. Because the Trash Wheels don’t harm animals, they’ve become a kind of refuge for creatures seeking a safe place to nest. A mother duck once laid its eggs under the conveyor belt, and fish enjoy the oxygenated water that’s created as the wheel turns in the river during the summer.”

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“ If you’re a city leader or official, you can adopt your own Trash Wheel at MrTrashWheel.com. “

ALRIGHT EVERYBODY TIME TO CONTACT YOUR LOCAL OFFICIALS

[shutyourmoustache]

Normalize smacking down needlessly shitty people.

[guerrillatech]

[xeptum]

source here

[afloweroutofstone]

Insanely funny that Elon Musk became this cult figure for hyping up Bitcoin, quietly sold off most of his holdings, and then started talking shit about it, only to then start doing the same with Dogecoin. He’s literally just collecting money from his fanbase by manipulating the market for an unregulated commodity, which is possible because the commodity in question is so disconnected from any real economic value that celebrity gossip can move its price. There are guys online a few months ago who kissed the ground Musk walked on that are now literally sending him death threats

[kaijuno]

[skinamarinked]

[skinamarinked]

Personal favorite tags on this photo set so far

[nazdaddy]

[midtownkevin]

HAPPY PRIDE Month!

[snailtongue]

[everythingfox]

Cats will cat

[rslashrats]

[wooteena]

featherless ✅

biped ✅

this is a MAN

[thesexypanda-boo]

okay no.

noo.

i thought his nose thingy was the most unsettling thing I've ever seen,,,,, and then his tongue comes out???? what the hell???

[bones-sprouts]

hes just a little dude you don't have to slander him like that

[glennisthemenace-deactivated202]

why do bat eared foxes look like they're being bullied ,,,,

[blackestbileandsmoke]

Same creature

[huffylemon]

happy pride month

[brucebocchi]

[chilewithcarnage]

HAPPY PRIDE EVERYBODY

[everythingfox]

“Nothing comes between Hudson and his ball”

(Source)

[cutecornflakes]

The most difficult test of my self-control I’ve ever encountered

[politijohn]

US aid to Israel vs. other countries:

In 2019, the US sent $3.8B in foreign aid to Israel. About $8.5M of that aid went towards the economy. The rest went to its military.