8/3 -- Breaking News!!! Humongous Plastic Water Bottle (ok, plastics don't break!) Discovered in Rock Creek Park!!!


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A sad last-minute addition to this blog, an image perhaps summarizing the horrid murders in Texas and Ohio

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This blog is dedicated to our plastic water bottle (pwb) sipping commander in chief, D. Trump (who claims he doesn't drink wine; on Puritans and wine, see)

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While venturing upon my near-daily, ca. 75 min.stroll/jog in search of plastic empty bottles in the Northwest section of the Imperial Capital (an area which includes our wondrous America-at-its-best national park Rock Creek Park [map at] -- a retroactive thank you, President Teddy Roosevelt, for all your faults, and nobody's perfect, for all you did for making this Park a reality.)

It is indeed a Park a part apart -- in an urban area -- which does, gloriously, contribute to making "America Breathe."

At the risk of sounding corny, allow me to say that Rock Creek Park is a small but significant American ode to our shared humanity's commitment to respecting nature on earth ... which is threatened to be buried -- among countless other pollutants -- in plastic water bottles/other waste s--t).

(Plastic water bottles are not the sole culprit: There's a lot of other plastic sh--t dumped in the area, from used prophylactics to green-colored plastic dental floss).

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 While feeling much privileged to enjoy a "free," public natural park in a hallowed natural setting in my not-yet-post puberty years years living in my neighborhood (am now in my "only" early 70s [or so I tell to reassure myself]), today I stumbled upon, a rudely, irresponsibly dumped giant plastic --s...t - into one of the Park's professionally well-maintained, but not always immediately visible bushes:

A HUMONGUS PBW 
-- (as its label states:)
101.4FL OZ
(3 QT, 5.r FL PZ) 3L)

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Note that the image (on your left) of the grossly over-size plastic bottle has the hardly legibly declaration: "easy pour"

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 Less glamorous finds: 
Two other pwbs with well-known labels, a squashed one picked up by yours truly in the near-middle of Connecticut Avenue, a main DC artery, without being knocked over by traffic 

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Article of interest: 

Disposable plastic water bottles banned from San Francisco airport By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Business Updated 5:53 PM ET, Fri August 2, 2019

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For previous entries in this blog, see its previous "editions" of, starting with, which should lead you other entries of this blog, which I started months ago, when I simply got insufferably tired of putting up with "plastic s--t" dumped all over our neighborhood

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