8/20 -- Breaking News!!! Plastic Water Bottle Trash Lives on in the Imperial Capital's Porter Street!!!

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During my irregularly scheduled ca 70 mins morning personal jog/stroll in parts of the NW quadrant of the Imperial Capital, which includes the magical Rock Creek Park (as well as Tilden Street and Connecticut Avenue),

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today I found "only" four Plastic Water Bottles (PWBs) (none, I'd say, with labels unknown to DC residents) -- but all in only one of the quadrant's prestigious Street, Porter Street.

 Hey!, Am not blaming anyone, but why should Porter regularly have so much PBWs s--t? Speculations/answers welcome ...
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LATEST  FROM THE MEDIA ON OUR PLASTIC UNIVERSE!!!

No, they're not from another planet

Zamira Rahim, "Microplastics discovered in Arctic snow: ‘Enormous’ amount of pollutant particles also found across Bavarian Alps," Independent 


 The team of scientists gathered snow samples from isolated locations

Don't Plastic-Steal Sand in Sardinia

 Sardegna Rubata e Depredata from: 
https://www.foxnews.com/world/french-couple-sand-italian-beach
[JB -- evidenly this link is no longer operational, but info this story
can be found elsewhere on the 'Net]
16 agosto, inizio del controesodo.
Questi invece si volevano portare un ricordino in Francia.... giusto 40 chili di sabbia di Chia
See Translation



ANSA.IT
Sardegna,40kg di sabbia nascosti nel suv - Ultima Ora
Quasi 40 kg di sabbia bianca asportata dalla spiaggia di Chia (Sud Sardegna) sono state scoperte nel portabagagli di un suv sul quale una coppia di turisti francesi si apprestava a lasciare la Sardegna a bordo del traghetto in partenza da Porto Torres per ... (ANSA)


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Things go better with nurdle

I can go to any beach, give me five minutes and I’ll find a [plastic] nurdle.”
--Sherri Mason, a plastics pollution researcher [nurdle image below]
https://qz.com/…/nurdles-are-the-biggest-pollution-disaste…/; image from article

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