8/23: Breaking News!!! Porter Street is Plastic-Water-Bottle Free!!! (for a day, for a few hours?)


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On 8/23 in the AM, your blogger found no
 Yes, NO!!! -- plastic water bottles on Porter Street!!!
No PWBs on Porter Street?
How's that for "breaking news"!!!

A memorable development indeed -- and truly "breaking news"!!! 
(Well, ok some cynics would say plastic "doesn't break"). 

Map of Cleveland Park

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 8/23 was also notable in that your blogger/jogger/stroller found two PWBs  he had not seen before. The first, on a curb on Tilden Street, was stored away in a brown junk food bag and had the label:
 GLACÉAU 
vitamin water 
power-c 
dragonfruit ...

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The second PWB, first discovered on a curb on Connecticut Avenue, was a plastic bottle of your blogger's favorite "sparkling natural mineral water," S. Pellegrino (which he, a snob, drinks only from a glass, not a plastic, bottle).

The item, surprisingly rare in this blog's brief PWBs trash history, was contained in a rumpled, fat-stained McDonald's paper bag.

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BTW, during your blogger's trash pick-up journeys, with his feet firmly on the ground, he does not limit himself to collecting PWBs.

The other items -- all desecrating a unique, historic area in DC, including part of  the magical  Rock Creek Park -- range from disposable coffee cups (with plastic lids) to used prophylactics (the latter reluctantly picked up by yours truly with a broken branch).

A list of items collected on a near-daily basis can be found at. 

The trash gathered in your blogger's trash bag is disposed of in public waste receptacles in the Cleveland Park neighborhood, where, happily, recycle bins have recently been installed on Connecticut Avenue, on the west side of the street, facing the University of the District of Columbia.

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UDC new student center [on Connecticut Avenue]

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