9/7-9/6: Breaking News!!! Record Number of Plastic Water Bottles Found on Connecticut Avenue, in a NW Section of the Imperial Capital !!!

Comment from a reader: "But plastic doesn't break like glass."

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JB comment: Shouldn't the word be litter?

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Summary: Plastic Water Bottles (PBWs) near-daily AM pickup in Cleveland Park, DC on 9/7-9/6, updated by your blogger while he strolls/jogs/picks up trash near-daily for ca 70 mins in that historic area, home of the magical (once pristine?) Rock Creek Park.

Map of Cleveland Park

9/7

 9/7 -- Humongous Number of PWBs found/picked up for disposal in Cleveland Park waste receptacles (total 14)!

--Eight PBWs: On Connecticut Avenue, a record number for that main artery in DC: Perhaps because the workmen fixing/renovating the Avenue with Star-Wars looking equipment, get quickly dehydrated in the hot DC temperatures, and are so busy with their work that some don't think of disposing their PWBs properly.

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BTW, Among the eight PWBs, two mini PWBs found on Conn Av with labels depicting a cartoon-like yellow-eyed spider with sharp molars (yours truly could not find an image on the Internet) but which evidently fits into the category of:

Monster Themed Water Bottle Labels

--Five PWBs: Porter Street, including half a PWB, decapitated and label-less

--One PWB -- very compressed, evidently due to pressure from an automobile tire (s), on Tilden Street

EXTRA, EXTRA!!! 

On, this evening. the way to the the Giant Supermarket near where I live on Connecticut Avenue to buy a bottle of cheap white wine to go with a fish dinner with a dear friend, I found yet another PWB with the label: "Clover Valley, PURIFIED drinking water," but was unable to find an image of this item on the internet.   

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9/6

A thankfully -- for the environment -- low volume pick-up of PWBs (and which gave your blogger's back a break):

--Three PWBs: on Connecticut Avenue; as noted above, where workmen renovating the Avenue must get very thirsty in the hot weather and are perhaps too busy to work/sweat to dispose of their PWBs "properly."

--One PWB -- on Tilden Street, a PWB so disfigured that it seemed to have been forgotten by time (not to speak by trash collectors)


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