8/27: Don't Miss the Latest News!!! The Plastic Water Bottle Situation in the Imperial Capital -- up to the minute!!!
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Today (8/27), in Cleveland Park (Northwest quadrant of the Imperial Capital [map at]), where your blogger, stretching his 71-year-old legs during a near-daily ca. 70 mins. constitutional, found and picked up five plastic water bottles (PWBs) dumped unceremoniously by ... whomever/wherever ...
Here's the list:
Jacob Fenston, "Goodbye, Plastic Straws: D.C.’s Ban Is Now In Effect," dcist.com -- A propos of which, today on Connecticut Avenue your plastic water bottle trash-collector found a paper straw, mercilessly piercing a plastic lid. Progress moves slowly ...Today (8/27), in Cleveland Park (Northwest quadrant of the Imperial Capital [map at]), where your blogger, stretching his 71-year-old legs during a near-daily ca. 70 mins. constitutional, found and picked up five plastic water bottles (PWBs) dumped unceremoniously by ... whomever/wherever ...
Here's the list:
1. Tilden Street: one mini-PWB;
Also, in the magical Rock Creek Park, midway along the path leading to Porter Street, a decapitated, label-less PWB was found by your blogger below a bush, where it evidently had been lying in piece/s (hiding?) for a long, long time.
What lasts forever? Plastic or love?
[FYI, Other a discarded items quite regularly discovered and picked up by yours truly on other days include beer/soda bottles/cans, brown paper junk food bags, coffee cups with plastic lids/plastic straws, empty cigarette packs, plastic dental floss, used prophylactics, ... the list goes on and on). These polluting items are disposed of by your blogger/jogger in waste receptacles thankfully available in the Cleveland Park neighborhood.]
2. On/off Porter Street: two PWBs;
3. Off Connecticut Avenue, near the Burke School, one PWB, filled with a blue-colored liquid that did not appear to be urine, as is not too rarely the case with discarded PWBs.
3. Off Connecticut Avenue, near the Burke School, one PWB, filled with a blue-colored liquid that did not appear to be urine, as is not too rarely the case with discarded PWBs.
Also, in the magical Rock Creek Park, midway along the path leading to Porter Street, a decapitated, label-less PWB was found by your blogger below a bush, where it evidently had been lying in piece/s (hiding?) for a long, long time.
What lasts forever? Plastic or love?
[FYI, Other a discarded items quite regularly discovered and picked up by yours truly on other days include beer/soda bottles/cans, brown paper junk food bags, coffee cups with plastic lids/plastic straws, empty cigarette packs, plastic dental floss, used prophylactics, ... the list goes on and on). These polluting items are disposed of by your blogger/jogger in waste receptacles thankfully available in the Cleveland Park neighborhood.]
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New Section: Hell-icopter Noise Pollution
While yours truly ventured into urban nature (the magical Rock Creek Park) today (8/27) he heard (if he could still hear properly after one initial ear-busting 'copter overflight) three hell-icopters' merciless noise attack on the magical Park in the heart of Washington during the space of about 25 minutes.
Yours truly is not the only DC resident complaining about the yet not fully explained 'copter racket in historic places where respect for some soul-soothing silence is called for.
But there may be hope ("hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul") that this hell-icopter invasion (which reminds me of the brutal VN era's sounds/images) will be pushed back:
See Editorial Board, "D.C.-area residents may finally get some relief from helicopter noise," The Washington Post (June 30, 2029)
Yours truly is not the only DC resident complaining about the yet not fully explained 'copter racket in historic places where respect for some soul-soothing silence is called for.
But there may be hope ("hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul") that this hell-icopter invasion (which reminds me of the brutal VN era's sounds/images) will be pushed back:
See Editorial Board, "D.C.-area residents may finally get some relief from helicopter noise," The Washington Post (June 30, 2029)
Image from, with caption: "Like ‘living in a war zone’: Washington-area residents say increased helicopter traffic is giving them nightmares," The Washington Post (June 23, 2019) [JB -- image could not be found in article itself, but was acquired, with part of the caption, in Google images]
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Paper and plastic live in har-money ...
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