8/26: More News-Breaking News! Tilden Street Wins vs. Porter Street, 3-2 in the undeclared Plastic Water Bottles Trash War!!!

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Image from article (2017), under the headline: "Donald Trump Pulls a Rubio and Gulps From a Big-Boy Bottle of Water"
Quite a news-breaking day in the Plastic Water Bottle (PBW) world!!!

Porter Street/Tilden Street (see below map)

Porter Lost on 8/26 -- in an unannounced, unpublicized, street-to street competition on "where the most PWB trash can be found in Cleveland Park," part of the NW quadrant of Washington, DC. ...

Porter Street Lost to Tilden Street.

 The score, based on your blogger's PBWs pick-up: Three (Tilden Street PWBs) Found to Two (Porter Street PWBs) Found!!!

 I repeat: Three (3) PWBs for Tilden to two (2) for Porter !!!

The result of this unpublicized competition was discovered by your blogger during his near-daily ca. 70 minute stroll/jog in his the neck of the woods in the Northwest quadrant of the Imperial Capital, Cleveland Park, on 8/26.

(Map of where the exciting 3-2 Tilden/Porter competition (not a face-to-face one) took place: Tilden on the upper edge of the below map; Porter in the middle)

Map of Cleveland Park

Porter, BTW, included an item seldom seen (to the best of your blogger's knowledge/failing memory) during his unofficial role as a PWB discoverer:

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In other areas of your explorer's feet-on-the-ground research (70-mins, 8/26) on the Cleveland Park area "who's got the most trash PWBs" competition:

--Rock Creek Park public picnic no. 1 -- two PWBs found
--Connecticut Avenue -- two PWBs found.

None of the two above had notable labels.

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News in the News

Ruqayyah Moynihan and Herwin Thole, "A 25-year-old who raised tens of millions for an underwater ocean-cleaning parachute finally made a working model," Business Insider Nederland

pacific garbage patch
Image from article, with caption:  Slat's organization, The Ocean Cleanup, has developed a tool to remove the trash 

Excerpt:
  • Between the West Coast of the United States and Hawaii, there's a giant pool of trash over twice the size of Texas called the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch. 
  • The patch contains over 1.8 trillion bits of floating plastic. 
  • 25-year-old entrepreneur Boyan Slat is on a mission to clean up the plastic soup — and he believes his company, The Ocean Cleanup, may have found a working solution. 
  • Finding a solution hasn't been plain sailing, however; it has required rigorous testing, troubleshooting, and repeatedly going back to the drawing board. 
  • If the changes made to its original model are a success, The Ocean Cleanup will be able to scale up the existing model and, eventually, install plastic traps across the Pacific.

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