8/18: Slow News Day, No News is Good News!!! Only Three Plastic Water Bottles found in a section of NW DC!

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A slow day (8/18) on the Plastic Water Bottle (PWB) one-citizen pick-up initiative (PUI) under my very own solitary direction, with only three such bottles discovered while I took my near-daily 65-minute stroll/jog in the NW quadrant of the Imperial Capital.

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PWBs were found:

--One (without a label) on Porter Street, the most powerful magnet of PWBs in the area under my observation [Porter, home of comfortably looking, if not quite luxurious, homes/apartments, continues to make headlines news on this blog by its impressive trash output of PWBs!]

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--One PWB on Connecticut Avenue, the main NW DC artery where I live

--Another PWB in the area where the Giant supermarket is located, on/off Conn. Av.

None of the PWBs bore eccentric labels (i.e., labels not well-known by ordinary consumers in Washington DC).

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New Section for this Blog: Plastic Water Bottles News Alert!

a) See this interesting video re plastic pollution in the ocean (thanks, MF) which suggests this pollution is even more complicated than as was earlier reported in some media.

b) Oliver Franklin-Wallis, "Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish?" The Guardian (August 18, 2019

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