Dirty Jobs: How Baltimore’s ‘Mr. Trash Wheel’ Collected 1 Million Pounds of Trash From A Harbor
Adam Lindquist Director Of The Healthy Harbor Initiative Waterfront Partnership Of Baltimore
June 28, 2017
Mr. Trash Wheel— the world’s first sustainably-powered trash collector— has removed over 9 million cigarette butts, nearly 500,000 polystyrene containers and close to 400,000 plastic bottles from Baltimore’s harbor. But is he a match for the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch?" Adam Lindquist, Director of Baltimore’s Healthy Harbor Initiative, explains.
Sun-Powered Desalination for Villages in India
Mit News
October 03, 2014
Off-grid Indian communities with salty groundwater could get potable water through a proposed solar technique.
Around the world, there is more salty groundwater than fresh, drinkable groundwater. For example, 60 percent of India is underlain by salty water — and much of that area is not served by an electric grid that could run conventional reverse-osmosis desalination plants.