8/25: The News Never, Never Stops!!! Porter Street Reinstated as the Cleveland Park, NW DC Trash Kingdom of Plastic Water Bottles!!!

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 QUOTATION FOR THE DAY:

  “It should be up to our visitors to decide how best to keep themselves and their families hydrated during a visit to a national park.” 
(SEE ARTICLE AT THE END OF THIS ENTRY )

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 In a 8/25 regular morning stroll/jog in the Cleveland park area of the Northwest quadrant of the Imperial Capital, your blogger,

Map of Cleveland Park
in part as a search to uncover (and dispose of) polluting plastic water bottles (PWBs), picked up seven PWBs on Porter Street in the space of some 20 minutes,
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thus bringing to an abrupt end his overly idealistic hope that Porter Street would no longer be the trash Kingdom of Used Plastic Water Bottles [PWBs] in NW DC.

 Sad news, but the news is the news!!!
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Today's PWBs pick-up-by-hand take includes the seven Porter PWBs (all with well-known labels in DC) that your nitpicking traveler noticed:

--One PWB, right outside the Indonesian Ambassador's residence at 2700 Tilden Street, where Bazaar and Panggung Gembira (Bazaar and Cultural Performances) were taking place; 

--Four  PWBs on Connecticut Avenue, including the following with the seldom-seen (in Cleveland Park not properly disposed of plastic s--t) labels:
Essentia Water Water, Ionized Alkaline

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The News in the News!
BRIEFLY
Stuff that matters 
LIFE IN PLASTIC
grist.org (2017)
Since Trump reversed a plastic water bottle ban in national parks. And pretty much nobody is happy about it, except maybe Nestlé.

 Since 2011, 23 national parks had ended the sale of plastic water bottles to cut down on trash and litter. Before the ban took effect at the Grand Canyon, for example, water bottles made up 20 percent of the park’s total waste. But on Aug. 16, the Trump administration ended the six-year-old policy that enabled the ban, welcoming plastic bottles back to the Grand Canyon, Zion, and other national parks.
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Bottled water companies had lobbied against the Obama-era policy for years. Coincidentally, the National Park Service’s statement on the reversal echoes the industry’s arguments: “It should be up to our visitors to decide how best to keep themselves and their families hydrated during a visit to a national park.”

Lauren Derusha Florez, Corporate Accountability International* campaign director, is calling for park superintendents to resist. “We know that many of our parks want to do away with bottled water,” she wrote in a blog post. “Let’s make sure they know that we support them in that move, even if the current administration doesn’t.”

*Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified Florez as the campaign director at the Sierra Club. 

 Manola Secaira Aug 22, 2017

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