8/21 - The Great Plastic Water Bottle Elimination Leap Forward in NW DC Goes from Success to Success!!!

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Breaking News!!! 
(don't tell me plastic doesn't break)
Four PWBs Trash Picked Up Today by Your Blogger in The Imperial Capital!!! 

 The Great Plastic Water Bottle Catch (PWB) in the NW quadrant [see below map] of the Imperial Capital Continues! 

(But none -- thank God & The National Park Service & considerate citizens -- in Rock Creek Park, given that no plastic trash could be found in that magical space on today's near-daily watch by your blogger.) 

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FYI, before today's account of the daily PWB pick-up by your blogger, here below is a geographical tour of the area in the Imperial Capital where your blogger walks/attemps to run, with his aged feet on the ground, during his search for obnoxious s---t PWBs, dumped all over our sacred democratic ground (pardon the "political" language by whomever, at all times of the day) ...

 Here's a map of the quadrants of Washington, DC

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 ... And another map, highlighted with a section of the NW DC Quadrant, where your blogger's endless search for PWBs marches on, on a near daily basis 

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Where specifically is the NW DC area is where blogger John focuses a search for PWBs? This map helps answer that question.

Map of Cleveland Park

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Objets trouvés
I won't use the French word "merde"

[Above, one of the fancy-Euro names given to this blog when it first began with its initiator, a guy --me -- trying to pick up the never-ending plastic & other s..t-- dumped in his -- and, most important, his neighbors' 'hood -- by whomever (including, I speculate sadly, the neighbors themselves) in our neighborhood.]  

Right below a  short list of where your blogger "personally"picks up PWBs NW DC trash on a near daily basis"(Does not include much of the 
s--t found/picked up: cigarette boxes, empty/semi-empty glass beer/Corona bottles, 

 paper napkins of all kinds; newspapers dumped all over the place;
plastic items (for various functions, e.g. knives & forks


... I could go on and on how how USA "public streets" have become public "shit holes" (to quote our fearless leader)

 But back to specifics picking up PWBs:

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 On the grassy divided Tilden Street (one PWB) mini-size: with a colorful label your blogger had never seen before: 

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--On Porter Street, the traditional Winner (see, as evidence) of the most PWBs found by your blogger in the area where he lives (two):
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--And last but not least, on Connecticut Ave, one sad-appearing PWB without a label, squeezed and decapitated; and another with a well-known label that needs no mention here (two).

 Here's a good ol' map of Conn Av:
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Connecticut Ave. - Washington DC 1919 Atlas Old Map Reprint - Baist Vol.1

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 FOOTNOTE TO THIS BLOG

A geographical/time [time approximate, depending on weather] breakdown of your blogger's usual ca. 70 mins trek consisting of strolling and jogging (and picking up trash [not only plastic bottles, but in the recent past, of s**t,  ranging from junk food bags and used plastic prophylactics -- with these birth-preventive devices delicately picked up by your blogger with the help of thin branches fallen off trees from the wooded area around Tilden Street where he stretches his aging muscles]):

  -- 15 mins: Down, eastward, via Tilden Street, after leaving Connecticut Avenue), until reaching Rock Creek Park;
 -- 25 mins: Along the natural uneven path of the magical Rock Creek Park, going south;
 -- 20 mins: Up, westward, via Porter Street, until it intersects Conn Ave;
 -- 10 minutes, northward, up Conn Ave until it intersects Tilden Street
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Extra !!! Extra !!! Breaking Mass Media Plastic News of the Day
Remember: Plastic Never Breaks!

Madeline Wells, "There's a big loophole in the new SFO plastic water bottle ban," SFGATE, Updated 


San Francisco International Airport is banning the sale of single-use plastic water bottles, taking effect Aug. 20, 2019. The new rule will apply to airport restaurants, cafes and vending machines. Photo: Richard Vogel, AP / Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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