9/24: Exciting Plastic Water Bottle News from the Imperial Capital's Tilden Street!!!

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Nov.15, 2015 -- (Text, accompanied by a video, from): President Donald Trump’s fumbling search for a water bottle stole the show from an extended defense of his trip to Asia that he delivered from the White House the day after he returned (image from)

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Map of Cleveland Park

During your blogger's 9/24 strolling/jogging trek in the Cleveland Park area of Washington DC in search of PWBs (plastic water bottles) to pick up (and dispose of, in public waste receptacles) -- part of his near-daily AM 70-min en plein air exercise in that neighborhood of the Imperial Capital -- he made an extraordinary discovery in the annals of his PWBs-junk collection:

He found five PWBs on the south side of Tilden Street (between its intersection with Connecticut Avenue and Spring of Freedom Road), the greatest number of such polluting objects on that tree-lined road that he has unearthed since he began in his personal trash elimination project several months ago.

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-- Two of the bottles were "hidden" in bushes along the street, where empty beer bottles/cans are frequent objets-trouvés; so are (not so frequently, thank The Almighty) used prophylactics -- of course, plastic items -- dumped in our delicate environment, which your blogger delicately and hygienically as possible, places  in his trash bag with the help of a wooden branch (I plead guilty: in plastic trash bag)

 -- One of the bottles was filled to the brim with urine (not an unusual discovery) 

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The rest of  your blogger's PWBs peregrination was similarly headline-making: No other PWBs were found anywhere else in the area that he routinely covers (with feet on the ground), the first time he observed such an unusual development.
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News in the News 

 Ocean Plastics
A sea turtle found in the Pacific Ocean had this debris in its stomach, according to The Ocean Cleanup, a foundation. 

Simon Reddy, "Plastic Pollution Affects Sea Life Throughout the Ocean: Photos document extent of the impact, which extends to the seafood people eat, pewtrusts.org (September 24, 2018):

According to the United Nations, at least 800 species worldwide are affected by marine debris, and as much as 80 percent of that litter is plastic. It is estimated that up to 13 million metric tons of plastic ends up in the ocean each year -- the equivalent of a rubbish or garbage truck load’s worth every minute. Fish, seabirds, sea turtles, and marine mammals can become entangled in or ingest plastic debris, causing suffocation, starvation, and drowning. Humans are not immune to this threat: While plastics are estimated to take up to hundreds of years to fully decompose, some of them break down much quicker into tiny particles, which in turn end up in the seafood we eat.

Ocean plastics
A seahorse wraps its tail around a plastic cotton swab near Sumbawa Island, Indonesia.

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