[updated 12/17] Plastic Water Bottles Collection/Eradication in Cleveland Park, Washington DC


For the previous entry to this blog [11/30], see; scroll down for 12/17

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Due to a number of factors, your scribbler has been unable during the past several weeks to keep up his blog on his minor, personal efforts to pick up (and dispose of, in public waste receptacles) plastic water bottles (PWBs) and other trash, ranging from left-over plastic gloves to used prophylactics, in his Cleveland Park neighborhood in the NW Quadrant of Washington, DC:

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Today, your blogger, in better shape, "Afoot and light-hearted," returned to his near-daily account of his neighborhood PWBs/other trash excursion, which covers the following area of Cleveland Park:

--Tilden Street, at its intersections with Connecticut Avenue and Spring of Freedom Road;
--Spring of Freedom Road with its intersection at Rock Creek Park; 
--Porter Street at its intersection with Connecticut Avenue;
--Connecticut Avenue at its intersection with the University of the District of Columbia (UDC)

Your blogger's usual PWBs "hunt and intercept," which consists of walking/ jogging/trashing junk, lasts ca. 75 minutes.

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Boring Details:

Today, 12/15, your blogger discovered at least a dozen PBWs in his neighborhood, with upper Tilden Street and Porter Street No 1 trash heroes

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Interestingly, he also found three left-over gloves; the image below does not describe their provenance:



CONDOR Chemical Resistant Rubber Latex Gloves,  17 mil,  Size L,  Yellow
but, not, repeat not, not to his regret, no used prophylactics were found, as was the case during his previous excursions in his neighborhood

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which he, as delicately as he could, in past months picked up with an available cut-off street tree branch.

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Minor note: Today your blogger was thanked by three passers-by for picking up trash in their/our neighborhood.

Your blogger told them he was trying to limit his time in purgatory; he should have added, "while on Mother Earth."

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 12/17 

Taking an abbreviated stroll due to weather conditions in his Cleveland Park imperial capital neighborhood, your dedicated blogger, during a 40-minute walk, found six plastic water bottles [PWBs (one filled to the rim with urine)] along Connecticut Avenue (from its intersection with Porter and Tilden Streets, both ways/sidewalks) and its other NW DC intersections:

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Comments

  1. I wonder if the authorities are aware of the constant littering in this area. If they are, and still can't do anything about it, we must look for a motive for littering. Perhaps there are no trash cans available for those on a picnic. An area which is naturally attractive for picnics also needs to provide a suitable way for the picnickers to dispose of their containers.

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  2. Public trash cans are available: in Rock Creek Park, Porter Street, and Connecticut Avenue (but not Tilden Street). Having witnessed "close-up" and on a near daily basis the trash situation in the DC area (Cleveland Park -- CP) where I live, I would assign much blame to "ordinary citizens" (including those who don't live in CP) for throwing their s__t wherever they feel like it.

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  3. If they can be caught doing this, they can be fined. But to catch them, there has to be some authority figures in the park. Maybe that is a bit expensive, or would mean higher taxes. Those who never go to the park, and maybe some of those who do, presumably don't mind the trash enough to be willing to pay more taxes to stop it. Sounds like a difficult dilemma.

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  4. If the trash in the park is from food that the litterbugs have eaten, then maybe a solution is to not allow any fast food restaurants near the park. Eliminating the park, on the other hand, is not a good solution, because trees reduce carbon emissions.

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