Updated [10/22]! 10/12-10/17, 10/19, 10/20, 10/21-22 -- The Exposure of Plastic Water Bottles in the Imperial Capital Is Being Pursued According to Stakhanovite Dedication!!!
(see, for entries on other dates; for full description of trash picked up, see; on Stakhanovite see)
10/22
for 10/13-16, 10/17, 10/19. 10/20, 10/21-22
see below
for 10/13-16, 10/17, 10/19. 10/20, 10/21-22
see below
This blog is dedicated to D. Trump, "You're Fired" vulgar entertainer/so-called business master of the "art of the steal" --
and now Commander in thief of the USA
and now Commander in thief of the USA
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10/12
Entries on this blog, initiated a few months ago, are based on a near-daily jog/stroll by your scribbler in his neighborhood, located in the Cleveland Park area (where part of the magical Rock Creek Park is located)
in the northwest quadrant of the Imperial Capital, Washington, D.C.
During his near-daily open-air peregrinations, your blogger picks up in the morning -- with the help of a trash picker recently donated to him by a local janitor -- plastic water bottles [PWBs], among other s--t, and disposes of them in what he hopes are appropriate public waste receptacles.
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Minor note: Today's entry (10/12) is based on a two-hour walk -- no jogging (as was the case in previous entries on this blog based on a 75-mins stroll/jog) due to a minor injury to (of all places) your scribbler's small toe:
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But down to serious business: PWBs, found and disposed of, on 10/12 in a section of Cleveland Park neighborhood (see above Cleveland Park image):
--Three PWBs on Tilden Street; one with 1/3 urine content
--One in Picnic Area #1, Rock Creek Park
--Six on Porter Street, Cleveland Park Trash Kingdom of Plastic Water Bottles; one with 4/5 urine content
Among the Porter Street PWBs found, one with a label unknown to your blogger:
--Four on/near Connecticut Avenue, an unusually high number; one with high non-swallowed H2O content
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Minor Addendum: Four -- Record number of unknown people today (10/12) who expressed thanks for your blogger's trash-picking (was it because he was walking, not "jogging"?) while he was strolling around with a plastic (yes, plastic, mea culpa ...) bag in hand (obtained for ten cents at the local supermarket), as well as the kind janitor-provided trash picker referred to above. Doubtless our dear fellow citizens did not confuse a trash picker with a crucifix ...
Yes, four, said, in their way, "Thank You" !!!
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News in the News
Amber Haque & Shamaan Freeman-Powell, "Plastic pollution: How Ibiza is tackling its problem with waste," BBC News, 11 October 2019
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Due to a minor little toe foot injury (see details above),
your blogger, unable to jog, had to limit the time/space of his PWBs pick-up/disposal: on Connecticut Avenue, between Tilden Street (south) and University of the District of Columbia (north) -- to a roughly 20-minute walk.
During this four-day period (10-13-10/16), limiting his usual walking/jogging space, he discovered eight PBWs, including in an alley right behind Connecticut Avenue and in a curb where Veazey Street nearly intersects Conn Av (Veazey marked by red lines; Conn in yellow).
Important Note: One PWB, a specimen with a label not yet seen by your scribbler, was collected and promptly dumped in a public trash can on Conn.
--Kali Venable, "Formosa agrees to $50 million settlement and zero discharge of plastic pellets, " vicad.com (Oct 15, 2019)
Formosa Plastics agreed to pay $50 million for polluting waterways Tuesday, setting a record for the largest settlement of a Clean Water Act lawsuit brought by private individuals.
“It has been four long, hard years getting to this place, and to see it in writing, with signatures and filed, is the most satisfying feeling I have ever had,” an ecstatic Diane Wilson said Tuesday.
In addition to the $50 million, which will fund environmental mitigation in the region around the Point Comfort facility, Formosa also agreed to comply with future “zero discharge” standards for all plastics and clean up existing pollution.
“The conditions agreed to in this settlement demonstrate Formosa’s commitment to manufacturing our products in a safe and environmentally friendly manner,” Ken Mounger, the Formosa Plastic Corp., USA executive vice president, said in a news release.
image from article
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10-13/16
Due to a minor little toe foot injury (see details above),
your blogger, unable to jog, had to limit the time/space of his PWBs pick-up/disposal: on Connecticut Avenue, between Tilden Street (south) and University of the District of Columbia (north) -- to a roughly 20-minute walk.
During this four-day period (10-13-10/16), limiting his usual walking/jogging space, he discovered eight PBWs, including in an alley right behind Connecticut Avenue and in a curb where Veazey Street nearly intersects Conn Av (Veazey marked by red lines; Conn in yellow).
Important Note: One PWB, a specimen with a label not yet seen by your scribbler, was collected and promptly dumped in a public trash can on Conn.
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News in the News
--Kali Venable, "Formosa agrees to $50 million settlement and zero discharge of plastic pellets, " vicad.com (Oct 15, 2019)
Image from article, with caption: Ronnie Hamrick, a member of the San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper, holds some plastic pellets he found along the shorelines of Lavaca Bay and Cox Creek the week of Feb. 11, 2019.
“It has been four long, hard years getting to this place, and to see it in writing, with signatures and filed, is the most satisfying feeling I have ever had,” an ecstatic Diane Wilson said Tuesday.
In addition to the $50 million, which will fund environmental mitigation in the region around the Point Comfort facility, Formosa also agreed to comply with future “zero discharge” standards for all plastics and clean up existing pollution.
“The conditions agreed to in this settlement demonstrate Formosa’s commitment to manufacturing our products in a safe and environmentally friendly manner,” Ken Mounger, the Formosa Plastic Corp., USA executive vice president, said in a news release.
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--Helen Briggs, "Microplastics: Seeking the 'plastic score' of the food on our plates: Microplastics are found everywhere on Earth, yet we know surprisingly little about what risks they pose to living things. Scientists are now racing to investigate some of the big unanswered questions." BBC News, 13 October 2019image from article
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from Facebook
10/17
Thanks to a medical improvement in your blogger's swollen little toe (mentioned above; of all places in the human anatomy, what a silly segment of one's body to endure irritating discomfort), the pain is gradually vanishing, thanks also to the All-Mighty (should I add "modern medicine"?).
In a better little-toe condition, your blogger was able to extend his abbreviated stroll/jog in his search-and-destroy operation vs. PWBs (plastic water bottles) into an enlarged segment of Cleveland Park's Connecticut Avenue -- from Porter Street to University of the District of Columbia (back and forth) -- which takes ca. 40 mins (of course, at non speed-walk standards).
During his walk, your "PWBs Cleveland Park pickup guy" found, one and possibly two, PWBs.
The PWB that could be identified with certainty had a label well-known to the Imperial Capital; the other, squished and deformed/defaced beyond recognition, could have contained "soda" or so-called "juice," but probably not with urine found, not always rarely, by yours truly's in disposed of PWBs with its labels still on; this observation based on your blogger's experience).
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Allow me to report that two unknown fellow citizens, in reaction to my abbreviated PWBs/pickups on 10/17, were kind enough to say "thank you."
NOTE: Evidently there are people who believe that "enough is enough" with the plastic/other forms of s--t desecrating the capital of the United States -- so as not to turn it into a trash celebration/degradation of an Imperial City -- while ordinary citizens' streets stink with/sink in human-produced waste.
NOTE: Evidently there are people who believe that "enough is enough" with the plastic/other forms of s--t desecrating the capital of the United States -- so as not to turn it into a trash celebration/degradation of an Imperial City -- while ordinary citizens' streets stink with/sink in human-produced waste.
News in the News
Saabira Chaudhuri, "Nestlé to Refresh Bottled-Water Business as Sales Turn Flat: Water arm hurt by rising competition, high costs and growing concerns about single-use plastic," The Wall Street Journal (Oct. 17, 2019)
Image from article, with caption: Nestlé’s water business reported flat revenue in the nine months ended Sept. 30.
Nestlé SA NSRGY 0.11% said it would overhaul its struggling bottled-water arm, hoping to reinvigorate growth in a business grappling with rising competition, high costs and growing concerns about single-use plastic.
The world’s biggest packaged-food maker said its water arm, which sells brands including Poland Spring, San Pellegrino, Pure Life and Perrier, would go from being a stand-alone, globally managed business with headquarters in France, to one managed locally in Nestlé’s various regions. It also said the head of Nestlé Waters, Maurizio Patarnello, would leave the company by the end of the year. ...
Water is a “problem category” for Nestlé, said Jefferies analyst Martin Deboo earlier this month, saying the business is losing share to rivals in the U.S., its biggest market. Nestlé last year began selling sparkling, flavored water under Poland Spring, Arrowhead and other brands in the U.S. but the company has struggled to stand out in an increasingly crowded category. Apart from LaCroix—the market leader— Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. have rolled out sparkling-water competitors, while startups and private-label seltzer brands abound. ...
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Plastic pollution: how plastic bags were supposed to help the planet [video] - BBC news:
The plastic carrier bag has become something of a symbol for the problems caused by plastic pollution.
But according to the family of the man who created it, Sten Gustaf Thulin, his design was supposed to help the planet and he'd be shocked and upset to see what it's become.
The Thulin family make no money from the sale of the bags.
BBC Environment Reporter Laura Foster explains how these bags were supposed improved the planet and why paper and cotton bags can actually be worse for the environment than plastic ones that are recycled.
10/19
In another stroll (AM and PM) along Connecticut Avenue and intersecting streets beginning with Porter Street, and ending with University of the District of Columbia (see below map), your blogger, still recovering from a minor foot injury.
As your blogger walked at a rather slow pace, he found, and promptly disposed of in public waste receptacles, six PWBs (plastic water bottles).
No unusual labels were noticed.
FYI, as a measure of "public opinion" that could be of interest, your scribbler was thanked -- mirabile dictu! -- by two unknown pedestrians for his picking up a minute part of the imperial capital's trash during his 40-minute en marchant peregrination.
As your blogger walked at a rather slow pace, he found, and promptly disposed of in public waste receptacles, six PWBs (plastic water bottles).
No unusual labels were noticed.
FYI, as a measure of "public opinion" that could be of interest, your scribbler was thanked -- mirabile dictu! -- by two unknown pedestrians for his picking up a minute part of the imperial capital's trash during his 40-minute en marchant peregrination.
10/20
Two PWBs (plastic water bottles) found/picked up/thrown out in a public waste receptacle by your small-toe-hurting blogger
on a heavily rainy day on small segment of Connecticut Avenue in the Imperial Capital between Tilden St and UDC (University of District of Columbia)...
La Lucha Continua! (even with rain showers in the Imperial Capital!)
10/21-22
During your blogger's shortened trash pick-up route in the Imperial Capital (shortened because of a minor injury to his little toe that prevents him from running)
he slowly strolled along Connecticut Avenue (from Porter Street to University of District of Columbia [UDC], round-trip; see above map) finding and disposing of -- in public waste receptacles -- a total of five PWBs, one lying in a nearby alley to the east of Conn Av, and another at the intersection of Conn and what believes was Upton Street.
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Yes, there is a Benign All-Mighty!!!
Not far from UDC, your blogger discovered, to his surprise and pleasure, a left-over dollar bill on the street. Using his handy trash grabber [Thank God -- TG?] -- a generous, unexpected gift from a janitor in a Cleveland Park condo who said he had observed your scribbler cleaning up the sidewalks/streets in their common neighborhood.
Your blogger, without the least guilty conscience, rushed to pick up the dollar bill with his handy TG and, upon returning to his modest domicile, happily placed it in his wallet, thinking -- at least for now -- cash is better than trash.
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