9/16: Heart ''Breaking" News .... -- The Plastic Water Bottle Infestation in our Nation's Capital Sadly Continues ...

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Five plastic water bottles (PWBs) are picked up on 9/16 by your blogger during his ca. 70 mins., near-daily morning stroll/jog in his neighborhood, Cleveland Park (NW quadrant of Washington, DC). Using small branches from nearby shrubs, he picks up other trash as well, ranging from used prophylactics to greasy, wrinkled fast-food bags, during his "keep our city junk-free" pilgrimages.

Map of Cleveland Park

Among the plastic trash:

Tilden Street -- two PWBs

Rock Creek Park -- one PWB, in picnic area no. 1

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Rock Creek Park Picnic Area no. 1 from

Porter Street, The Kingdom of PWBs trash -- three, including one filled with urine on a slope off the sidewalk of the street

Connecticut Avenue -- two

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The trash-plastic bottles are disposed of by your blogger in DC public waste receptacles; he is glad to inform you that blue-colored metallic recycling bins have recently been placed on Connecticut Avenue (on the sidewalk next to the University of the District of Columbia).

[Reader beware: On any given date, yours truly may be off by an item or so on the number of bottled plastic trash he's actually collected; blame it on the failing memory of his advanced years.]

But allow a generalization, based not on calculations but on your blogger's fallible, on the ground experience during recent months: Five/six PWBs at least on "average" are picked-up by your peripatetic plastic hunter during his near-daily ecological adventures in his Cleveland Park neighborhood.

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News in the News

Michael Sainato and Chelsea Skojec, "Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry: The state’s aquifers are shrinking, yet corporations want to appropriate even more of them, The New York Times (September 1, 2019)

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John Flesher, "Trump Administration Officially Revokes Obama-Era Clean Water Protections," Time (September 12, 2019)

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