Leave it to the Trash Wheel family to make dumpster diving fashionable. 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 analyze the contents of Professor Trash Wheel’s dumpster.
Some might feel shy or embarrassed about strangers going through their trash, especially if it comes from the contents of their mechanical stomach. Not Professor Trash Wheel. The professor’s an open book.
This Saturday, she is opening herself up for examination. Check out the debris pulled from the Harris Creek outfall in the Canton neighborhood. Analyzing this data helps bolster local environmental advocacy efforts and make legislative change a reality. Such analysis helped bring the plastic bag bans and polystyrene foam bans to fruition. In 2025, this information will be used to advocate for a statewide bottle deposit bill.
An afterparty will be held at Wico Street Beer Co. for all participants but be careful not to get trashed.
Baltimore’s Trash Wheel family includes four trash wheels: Mr. Trash Wheel, Professor Trash Wheel, Captain Trash Wheel and Gwynnda the Good Wheel of the West. Last year, the Trash Wheel family collected over 1 million pounds of litter and debris from the Baltimore harbor.
Professor Trash Wheel joined the family on Dec. 4, 2016. The professor likes women in science, Thomas Dolby, Beyoncé OF COURSE, and sea otters among other things. Things that the professor would like to see disposed of include low tides and the patriarchy.
The Professor Trash Wheel Dumpster Dive will take place on Saturday, April 13 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Baltimore Community ToolBank, located at 1224 Wicomico St. in Baltimore.
The event is for people 18 years old and over due to the potential finding of sharps in the Professor’s dumpster. There will be filling stations for your reusable water bottles. Closed-toe shoes are required. Interested dumpster divers can get more details and register for the event by clicking this link.
