[Updated 10/31] 10/26-27/28,10/31 -- Latest News on the Plastic Water Bottle Infestation in a DC neighborhood



This blog is dedicated to D. Trump, 
"You're Fired" business con of the "art of the steal" --
and now Kommander in thief of the USA 

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Due an unfortunate (if not farcical) injury to his little toe (left, not right, leg; no relation to D. Trump's hand [pictured above]),

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your blogger has had to reorient his near daily constitutional, which included picking up (and disposing of) plastic water bottles, in public waste disposal bins.

Don't worry: Your scribbler won't harp on the kind of trash he's picked up in the recent past, which includes (of all waste!) used prophylactics, removed by him from the public space with the help of a branch, easily found in his tree-filled neighborhood.

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So ... for now  your communicator (YC, for short) has reduced his "constitutional" to a walk (not a jog as in the past) up and down a segment of Connecticut Avenue (Porter Street to UDC), in his Cleveland Park neighborhood, a stroll which takes about 40 minutes.

Map of Tilden St NW, Washington, DC 20008

Despite this change in his former regular destination (which included the magical Rock Creek Park), your blogger's peregrinations have not been disappointing, as he still finds his beloved (sorry, he meant despised) plastic water bottles (PWBs) in order to discard them, en passant, in public trash cans along the street.

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10/26

Your blogger found two PWBs along this important artery in the District of Columbia (Conn Av), a DC being a segment of the USA soon to be renamed, I predict, as it is based, some say, on the putative discoverer of the New World, Cristophoro Colombo; see the article in the Washington Pest, "Indigenous Peoples’ Day to replace Columbus Day in the District." )

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[no, no, not the detective in the Tee-Vee series, Columbo].

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10/27

But today, Sunday, 10/27 your wandering/wondering pedestrian found NINE (yes NINE!!!) PWBs along Conn Av and its intersections.

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That is a record number of PWBs found by him on Conn (no, not a secret con conspiracy).

In a previous blog, your scribbler noted that he picked up a dollar bill on the street, reiterating that, bottom line, he valued cash more than trash (to clarify, it was a real dollar bill, not the one pictured below).

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Well, today, your not yet unfriended FB friend found, during his trash collection, a coin (beats a painting by Picasso) that looked like a penny, and he immediately thought: "Perhaps I could earn a living just walkin' the streets of Dee-See" (no, not the Holy See).

It it turned our that this attractive objet trouvé was not a penny (despite its coloration), but, upon your blogger's further investigation in your Internet Interlocutor's modest domicile, it actually was of:

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 10/28

One sad-looking PWB found/then disposed of in a trash bin on Con Av; but -- on a positive note -- an attractive lady (if yours truly remembers her exact words) "Thank you for getting rid of our sh .. t"  --

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10/31

Six plastic water bottles found by your blogger in the Cleveland Park in the NW quadrant of Washington, DC, specifically on Connecticut Avenue (and in small sections of its intersecting streets) in the area between Porter Street and the University of District of the Columbia (see below map) -- walking in both directions takes approximately 40 minutes.

Map of Tilden St NW, Washington, DC 20008


The discovered plastic water bottles did not have "Happy Halloween" labels, but evidently such bottles exist:

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News in the News

Tom Gale, "New Report Names And Shames The Biggest Corporate Producers Of Plastic Pollution,  IFL Science (30 Oct 2019)

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"A recent audit has collected thousands of pieces of plastic from beaches across the world in a bid to name and shame the corporate powers most responsible for manufacturing plastic pollution. According to their findings, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo are the top three producers of branded plastic pollution globally."

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