Baltimore?s Inner Harbor is known for its beautiful skyline waterscape and its tourist friendly-areas ? but while it may have looked beautiful in pictures, if you were to acutally take a stroll through the harbor a couple years ago, you would?ve seen something completely different. Not too long ago, the harbor itself was horribly polluted.

Baltimore?s Waterfront Partnership is making a change for the better thanks to the Inner Harbor Water Wheel, affectionately known as Mr. Trash Wheel to Baltimore?s residents. Installed in May 2014, the Water Wheel sits at the mouth of the Jones Falls River in Baltimore?s Inner Harbor.

The Water Wheel has been astonishingly successful at trash removal, visibly decreasing the amount of garbage the lands in the harbor, especially after a rainfall. In the 18 months since its installation, the Water Wheel has removed 331 tons (1,543 cubic yards) of garbage. This includes 189,000 plastic bottles 243,000 polystyrene containers, and a staggering 6.6 million cigarette butts.