9/25; 9/26; 9/27: The Campaign in DC vs. Trash Plastic Water Bottles Continues In-Full-Force!!!

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9/25

On 9/25, during his regular ca. 70 mins AM stroll/jog in his Washington, DC neighborhood (Cleveland Park), your blogger picked up (and later discarded in public waste receptacles) five PWBs (plastic water bottles), thereby continuing his modest, but regular, one-person effort to diminish, granted in a minuscule way, the plastic infestation of a historic area in the Imperial Capital.

Details of PWBs pickup:

On Tilden Street -- one PWB (half full of urine; not an unusual liquid found in discarded PWBs)

In Rock Creek Park, picnic area #1 (see below image) -- one

On Porter Street, Cleveland Park Trash Kingdom of Plastic Water Bottles -- two

On Connecticut Avenue -- one humongous 50.7 FL OZ  PWB of Spring Water, with a label your blogger had never seen before, which states in part: "Bottled at the CG Roxane Source in Benton, TX 37307."

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News in the News

Ryan Felton, "Should We Break Our Bottled Water Habit?" Consumer Reports (September 26, 2019):

"[T]he long-term solution isn’t for more Americans to turn to bottled water, but to fix the nation’s water infrastructure, advocates say. The EPA says that over the next 20 years, fixing and maintaining the nation’s reservoirs, treatment plants, and pipes would cost about $24 billion annually—$7 billion less than what Americans spent on bottled water last year."

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9/26

Uneventful but still exciting day in the eternal struggle against the plastic invasion of the Imperial Capital! :

Two PWBs found by your blogger: one on Porter Street, the other on Connecticut Avenue

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9/26 News in the News


Image from article: Plastic bottles and waste on a beach

K Thor Jensen, "Mayor Dumps Tons of Trash on Beach So Clean-Up Campaign has Something to Remove,"  Newsweek, 9/26/19:

"A mayor in South Korea is under fire for dumping tons of garbage on an area beach so that volunteer clean-up crews had something to remove. Lee Dong-jin, the mayor of Jindo County, admits he had the trash carted in because apparently there wasn't any for his constituents to remove. 'We brought in waste styrofoam and other coastal trash gathered from nearby areas so the 600 participants could carry out clean-up activities," Lee said in a statement apologizing for the decision. He added that '100 percent' of the trash placed on the beach was removed by volunteers, and none of it had made its way into the ocean.'"

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9/27

Another relatively uneventful (but always exciting!!!) day in PWBs trash collection, except for the unusual fact that no PWBs were seen by your blogger in the Cleveland Park Kingdom of Plastic Water Bottle Trash, Porter Street

But at least three PWBs were uncovered!

--One bottle, Tilden Street

--One bottle, picnic area # 1, Rock Creek Park, near a picnic table

--One bottle, in a steep part of a wooded area off Connecticut Avenue; yours truly had to flex his muscles (of a certain age) to reach it with the help of his new toy, a trash grabber

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9/27 News in the News 

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Olivia Rosane, "Just One Tea Bag Can Release Billions of Microscopic Plastic Particles in Your Drink, Study Finds," EcoWatch (Sept. 26, 2019):

 "[R]esearchers found that steeping a plastic tea bag at 95 degrees Celsius released around 11.6 billion microplastics and 3.1 billion nanoplastics into a single cup."

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Last-Minute Extra, Extra, Extra, Read All About It !!! (12:40 pm, 9/27, 2019)

While your scribbler was on his happy way to shopping in his nearby Giant supermarket on Connecticut Avenue for the proper condiments to embellish a non-black tie dinner at his residence, he came up with the below plastic poison jewel:

One very flattened PWB, on a curb at the junction of Connecticut Avenue and Porter Street, with the label, judging on your blogger's early round-up of plastic trash, of "La Croix"