Trash interceptor - GIF, patent, photo

[Jon]

Variety of trash interceptors.



The anthropomorphized one with googly eyes is "Mr. Trash Wheel", at work in Baltimore, Maryland's Inner Harbor:



The inventor of Mr. Trash Wheel is John Kellett, for which he was awarded US patent #20070158253 A1.



More:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash_interceptor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Trash_Wheel
https://www.google.com/patents/US20070158253

Previously: The 1935 Dempster-Dumpster, the first dumpster - photos and patent

[McDesign]

That's an app, not a patent.

[Jon]

That's an app, not a patent.

Good call. I fixed the link so that it now correctly points to the patent grant.

[Frank S]

I guess the greenies will have something to say about it doesn't sort for the recyclers

[NortonDommi]

What a shame these needed to be invented. Local creek has a huge trash screen down at estuary entrance that has to be cleaned weekly, every one or two days during rainy season. Rubbish drops dramatically every school holidays,(three high schools, an intermediate and two primarys),and the streets are clean as well. Ironically the school brats write letters to the local paper about how the planet needs to be saved from pollution.
I grew up when being labeled a litter bug meant you would be ostracized. Amazingly none of these fine future leaders can make the correlation between dropping rubbish NEXT to a rubbish bin or throwing it out of a car window and trash on the street and beaches. That's modern education I suppose.

[IAMSatisfied]

It sure is disheartening how morals have degraded over the last few decades... I own a piece of property next to a high school stadium (in New Mexico), and the litter there is atrocious. I understand that in Japan and Switzerland there are no janitors in the schools to clean up after the kids, as it is part of their education to clean up after themselves. You can really see the results in how clean their societies are.

[Frank S]

Picking up garbage from the water great idea while NYC and NJ still dump their sewage in the Atlantic just 12 miles off the coast of Long Island

[Frank S]

You could never implement anything like that here in the USA, kids have been known to call child protective services on their parents for even asking them to clean up their rooms

[Frank S]

A city friend of mine was visiting a while back he noticed my large bag partially filled with 2 liter soft drink bottles he asked do you recycle way out here?
Nope I decycle and re-purpose . those plastic bottles are turned into useful implements or other vessels of purposeful uses and if I ever get a large enough quantity of them I will grind them up and melt them down to be formed into a block of solid plastic to be machined into something else.
My 3 cubic yard dumpster that I pay a premium for is mostly out near the road for passers by to deposit their discards and to hopefully entice the frequent terrorist (tourist) to drop their trash in instead of hucking their rubbish along the road. Do you know what happens to discarded rubbish when the county shredders mow the right of ways 2 or 3 times a year? They for one cannot see the beer bottles and cans in the 18" tall grass and two cannot be bothered to stop their huge tractors pulling the 18 feet wide shredder mowers ecery time the see an empty deer corn sack .
I can't stand to see that stuff to be shredded along my half mile road frontage.

[Jon]

I decycle.

Good one, I need to remember this. My current line to address over-enthusiastic recycling proselytizers is:

"I cycle. We can't all recycle; someone must do the difficult work of cycling. It's people like me that make all recycling possible. You're welcome."

That being said, re-utilization or re-appropriation or whatever is perfectly reasonable, but recycling of consumer beverage containers, while practical, is one of the most common virtue signals of the past 30 years.