9/4: The Plastic Water Bottle Invasion in the Imperial Capital Never Stops!!!

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Image from Pacific Standard, under the title: TRUMP'S PARK SERVICE EMBRACES PLASTIC POLLUTION: The beverage industry spent millions trying to get its way in Washington, D.C.—and it worked; the caption for the image reads: Donald Trump poses with a water bottle that has his picture on it during a book signing in 2004.

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Map of Cleveland Park

Plastic water bottles (PWBs) near-daily AM pickup in Cleveland Park, DC by your blogger while he strolls/jogs for ca 70 mins.

Found on 9/4 (five plastic water bottles total):

--Three on Porter Street, labeled by your blogger as The Cleveland Park Kingdom of Plastic Water Bottle Trash

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 --One on the green space outside the Czech Embassy on the Spring of Freedom St., just off Tilden Street

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Czech Embassy image from Wikipedia

 --One near the local Giant supermarket at 4303 Connecticut Avenue, in a space which is cleaned near daily by a hard worker hired to do so

Photo of Giant Food - Washington, DC, United States. Store front

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News in the News

Simon Scarr and Marco Hernandez, "Drowning in plastic: Visualising the world’s addiction to plastic bottles," Reuters (September 4, 2019)

Excerpt:

"The plastic bottles sold worldwide since 2009 would tower above New York’s Manhattan Island. Data from Euromonitor International shows that more than 480 billion of these bottles were sold last year alone. The 2018 annual figure of almost 482 billion is up more than 50% since 2009. The pile visualised below is around 2.4 km high and dwarfs the glittering skyscrapers of the Financial District at the tip of Lower Manhattan."

image [partial] from article

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Christy Brissette, "Is alkaline water really better for you?" The Washington Post (August 28, 2019)

image from article

Excerpt:

"In most areas of the country, you can safely and inexpensively rely on tap water to fulfill your fluid needs. You’ll be doing the environment a favor, too: drinking less bottled water means less single-use plastic waste."

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