Designing a machine for picking up litter along Minnesota highways : technical summary.
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Designing a machine for picking up litter along Minnesota highways : technical summary.

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    • Creators:
      Chaplin, Jonathan
    • Corporate Creators:
      CTC & Associates LLC
    • Corporate Contributors:
      University of Minnesota
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    • Publication/ Report Number:
      2008-21TS
    • Resource Type:
      Tech Report
    • Geographical Coverage:
      Minnesota
    • Edition:
      Technical summary.
    • Corporate Publisher:
      Minnesota. Dept. of Transportation. Research Services Section
    • Abstract:
      Collecting trash by hand along grassy highway shoulders and medians in the Twin Cities

      metropolitan area costs about $2 million per year. “Harvesting” trash in this manner is

      a time-consuming task that also presents serious safety hazards for Mn/DOT workers.

      Although there are machines that can remove trash from flat, smooth, paved surfaces,

      none have been designed to pick up litter from grassy areas or slopes without removing

      grass or clippings. Designing an off-road trash harvester would make the process of

      picking up trash easier, safer, faster and more cost-effective. In addition, fewer

      employees would be needed for trash pickup, freeing up some of them for other

      assignments.

      By 2006, Mn/DOT had completed Phase I of a project to develop an automated

      alternative. Investigators researched existing machines, technologies and components,

      and developed an initial set of machine specifications, including dimensions, operational

      speed and stability.

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