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
  • Subject/TRT Terms:
  • 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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