Leave it to the Trash Wheel household to make dumpster diving modern. Or is that “trashionable?” Behold the Professor Trash Wheel Dumpster Dive.
Waterfront Partnership’s Healthy Harbor Initiative is partnering with Volunteering Untapped and the Baltimore Community ToolBank to entice volunteers to investigate the contents of Professor Trash Wheel’s dumpster.
Some may really feel shy or embarrassed about strangers going by their trash, particularly if it comes from the contents of their mechanical abdomen. Not Professor Trash Wheel. The professor’s an open e book.
This Saturday, she is opening herself up for examination. Check out the particles pulled from the Harris Creek outfall in the Canton neighborhood. Analyzing this knowledge helps bolster native environmental advocacy efforts and make legislative change a actuality. Such evaluation helped deliver the plastic bag bans and polystyrene foam bans to fruition. In 2025, this info can be used to advocate for a statewide bottle deposit invoice.
An afterparty can be held at Wico Street Beer Co. for all contributors however watch out to not get trashed.
Baltimore’s Trash Wheel household consists of 4 trash wheels: Mr. Trash Wheel, Professor Trash Wheel, Captain Trash Wheel and Gwynnda the Good Wheel of the West. Last yr, the Trash Wheel household collected over 1 million kilos of litter and particles from the Baltimore harbor.
Professor Trash Wheel joined the household on Dec. 4, 2016. The professor likes ladies in science, Thomas Dolby, Beyoncé OF COURSE, and sea otters amongst different issues. Things that the professor wish to see disposed of are low tides and the patriarchy.
The Professor Trash Wheel Dumpster Dive will happen on Saturday, April 13 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Baltimore Community ToolBank, situated at 1224 Wicomico St. in Baltimore.
The occasion is for folks 18 years outdated and over attributable to the potential discovering of sharps in the Professor’s dumpster. There can be filling stations to your reusable water bottles. Closed-toe footwear are required. Interested dumpster divers can get extra particulars and register for the occasion by clicking this hyperlink.
