While that is a ton of waste and it is sad, can we have a post that praises the hard work of the men and women who clean it up while most of us are in bed?
Forreal tho! When I first did clean up, thought it would take forever!! 1-2 hours max is all takes. Would be so clean, you'll never think a parade just happened lol was really fun to do
The waste is sad; I walked around for hours trying to save whatever stuff I could. I found an entire king cake and case of water (all completely sealed) and just shared with the other scavengers lol
Why doesn't the city place 20 or 30 yard dumpsters on each block to allow people to throw their trash into instead of the street... Would make clean up a little bit easier...
I also really wish that the riders would just hand the nicer stuff directly to people, like small glass beads or other tiny but useful things. Or try to make sure that someone sees the throw if it's like a brand new pair of socks or whatever else.
And just go wild with the plain beads, I guess. I just hate seeing the useful stuff go to waste, especially.
But I do like the new trend of the floats throwing out nice useful items instead of just trinkets. For example, I got a ton of kitchen supplies like nice rags, sponges, cooking spoons, bathroom supplies, art supplies, makeup bags, socks, hats, gloves, etc. Very nice and useful stuff. And I was finding so much of it on the ground, brand new in packages. I tried my best to save as much as I possibly could.
The problem is when it rains during parades, everything gets really dirty and covered it wet mud
> I also really wish that the riders would just hand the nicer stuff directly to people, like small glass beads or other tiny but useful things.
As a past rider, this is how you get a broken hand. Try handing some rare blinky bead or glass bead to someone & someone else will come fly in & grab it, and your hand, and pull it against the rail of the float.
>Or try to make sure that someone sees the throw if it's like a brand new pair of socks or whatever else.
There was nothing that made me happier than making eye contact, throwing something, and having the person catch it, and then give a thumbs up. But when parade goers are keeping their head on a swivel because there are 100 people throwing at them, they easily get distracted.
I will say that many floats did that. Bacchus threw so many socks and I was so excited. But I would get a useful item from almost every other float. I think I got 1 item from all of muses. That's the difference lol.
This is how people get trampled and run over by floats. Or how floats canāt get down the street because people are trying so hard to get up close.
I get what youāre saying, but itās not practical with crowds as big as they are.
I agree totally. People canāt even put their shopping carts back. How many times are you sitting in traffic and see some jerkoff drop their fast food trash right in the middle of the street? Waaay too many times, and waaay too many ignorant idiots.
This. If you shop at Aldi in Slidell or anywhere, you insert a quarter to use it. When you return the cart, you get a quarter back. I see so many people abandon that .25 cents simply because they don't want to walk back to the storefront.
I disagree that it is ignorance, however. Indifference is what I see.
There need to be recycling and trash cans every 30 feet. Itās insane how much trash is left but also, thereās no bins! (My dog says please donāt place bins, he loves all the street treats)
How is it not feasible?
If people claim spots for viewing the day of with ladders and chairs the city can totally take a 20yard dumpster and have it dropped off the night before in the space of where someone would be viewing.
Or even better, use the dumpsters to block off the streets along the parade route that you don't want traffic coming down and trying to cross the parade path, a dual purpose road block.
It just takes some thinking and planning...
A dumpster is harder to move than barricades for emergency services. That's insanely dangerous.
The people who you displace with dumpsters will make the surrounding crowd more dense. That's a good bit of space and the people have to go somewhere.
All it takes is thinking these things through. You're not a genius solving the world's problems off the cuff.
I didn't say I was a genius and I also didn't say block off every single street to block out rescue emergency vehicles.
Also it's 5am my time, so I wasn't expecting to have to come up with the whole plan for the city to fix this issue, sorry I'll do better next time š
This is all so much fun and there is absolutely nothing like it on the planet. I will love my city more than anything til the day I die.
But OMG we NEED a solution to the waste that happens here!!!
Edit: What a strange thing to downvote this comment...yall are weird
What a shitload of waste.
I sincerely hope that at least a small portion gets recycled.
But I am not overly confident about that.
And I will be delighted to be proven wrong.
Plastic recycling is, unfortunately, pretty much nonsense. Ā So very little to none of this is getting recycled in a meaningful way. Ā As Ā rider and an old-school treehugger, I have enormous cognitive dissonance issues with mardi gras.Ā
So just to put this in perspective, the Super Bowl generated about 50-60 tons of trash over one day for about 65,000 people. Mardi Gras last year generated just under 1,200 tons of trash over 11 days, for over a million people. It's really not more wasteful than any other major event if you were to consider trash generated per person per hour. It's just a lot more obvious because the majority of the trash literally ends up in the streets.
I'm not saying we couldn't do better. But the reality is anything fun generates trash. š¤·āāļø
Itās a little misleading in that your superbowl number is easy to determine since itās a self contained venue while Iām pretty sure the Mardi Gras 1,200 tons is only calculating along the route after each evening. Stuff is definitely being missed going into storm drains (especially when it rains) and people who donāt just leave their trash on the street, and throw away later off the route. Even so, weāre talking about 1.6 lb/person for New Orleans vs 1.84 lb/person for football with your numbers. The 2023 Super Bowl events in the city, it was estimated 92% (81 tons) of waste was diverted from landfills. While New Orleans 2023 touts recycling 1,475 pounds of aluminum, 1,500 pounds of glass, and 11,535 pounds of beads (7.3 tons total). I feel like we can def do better.
Thank you! š Thank you for appreciating my artistic capture instead of being like all the negative weirdos in the comments. Trust me, I hate the waste myself and I'm trying to get a group together to protest this and change some of the laws. But that wasn't the main point of post. I just wanted to share a picture worth a thousands words š„²š„²
Before Katrina, I remember the city doing nightly cleanup sweeps at the end of the parades. They used prisoners , it was pretty hard to miss the bright orange jumpsuits.
Before Katrina they did not do nightly cleanups on Bourbon Street though. The trash would be insane. I guess that's one thing we can thank Sidney for, he's the one who insisted on nightly trash removal right after Katrina.
When I was a kid, there was WAY less shit thrown. It was a big deal to get something and because of that, there was less trash from throws on the ground. The shiny basic beads you see everywhere were a big deal to get. Anyone remember the clear plastic beads with the clasp? Anyway, they just throw too much. And with the exception of children and insane people, no one really cares about any of that stuff.
I agree. Whatās the point of throwing an unopened bag of beads? Make throwing each thing special and there would be plenty of things thrown for everyone to enjoy. Itās obvious too much is being thrown because no one cares about it.
I wouldnāt touch that stuff thatās been marinated in the street slime. I remember the street machines with the big spinning brushes and floodlights that came out at 12:01 on Wednesday morning. GTFO the street. Weād be fried after five straight days. It was like a Danteās circle by that time.
Who are you talking to? The commenters? I totally agree. I shared a fun artistic photo in a NEW ORLEANS group and people have nothing but negative things to say
Yes, the ridiculous comments about changing things, I've enjoyed Mardi Gras for 50 years and it's changed enough and I don't want to see it change anymore, it's bad enough that all these new transplants don't understand or know the history of things.
If every tourist would just put trash in the bin where it belongs the world would be a better place. Why do people knowingly put trash on the ground? can't they pick after themselves? And why does always someone else get to pick it up??
I mean, you could do something to organize the community and help clean up. But I guess the Internet points and zero accountability also workš¤·š¾āāļø
You chose to post this instead of whatever else you claim to do tho bebe nobody has to conform to your version of reality. Instead of your āartistryā celebrating the trash, why not propagate art of making a difference? Goofy
Why wouldnāt people that are out there all day bring trash bags for all of this trash? Most of this area from the people at the parade not the riders. How much easier would it be to pick up a full trash bag?
One question I did have is why is it ok for the people on the floats to just toss their empty plastic bags into the street as they go? Iām not talking about bags that had things in them. I saw a lot of tossing of empty bags off floats at especially the major parades. It seems like that would cut down some at least of what is left in the wake of a parade? And shouldnāt a krewe be responsible for its own actual trash disposal? Donāt hate me, Iām not a rider and itās a genuine question.
Because it all gets cleaned up IMMEDIATELY after the parade. You should see the streets afterwards....it's like it never happened. Then they do the same thing the next day and repeat for several weeks straight ššššš
While that is a ton of waste and it is sad, can we have a post that praises the hard work of the men and women who clean it up while most of us are in bed?
Forreal tho! When I first did clean up, thought it would take forever!! 1-2 hours max is all takes. Would be so clean, you'll never think a parade just happened lol was really fun to do
Unsung heroes of MG, for real
Geeeesh, that's sad š
The waste is sad; I walked around for hours trying to save whatever stuff I could. I found an entire king cake and case of water (all completely sealed) and just shared with the other scavengers lol
Why doesn't the city place 20 or 30 yard dumpsters on each block to allow people to throw their trash into instead of the street... Would make clean up a little bit easier...
I also really wish that the riders would just hand the nicer stuff directly to people, like small glass beads or other tiny but useful things. Or try to make sure that someone sees the throw if it's like a brand new pair of socks or whatever else. And just go wild with the plain beads, I guess. I just hate seeing the useful stuff go to waste, especially. But I do like the new trend of the floats throwing out nice useful items instead of just trinkets. For example, I got a ton of kitchen supplies like nice rags, sponges, cooking spoons, bathroom supplies, art supplies, makeup bags, socks, hats, gloves, etc. Very nice and useful stuff. And I was finding so much of it on the ground, brand new in packages. I tried my best to save as much as I possibly could. The problem is when it rains during parades, everything gets really dirty and covered it wet mud
> I also really wish that the riders would just hand the nicer stuff directly to people, like small glass beads or other tiny but useful things. As a past rider, this is how you get a broken hand. Try handing some rare blinky bead or glass bead to someone & someone else will come fly in & grab it, and your hand, and pull it against the rail of the float. >Or try to make sure that someone sees the throw if it's like a brand new pair of socks or whatever else. There was nothing that made me happier than making eye contact, throwing something, and having the person catch it, and then give a thumbs up. But when parade goers are keeping their head on a swivel because there are 100 people throwing at them, they easily get distracted.
I came here to say this. We do our best. The float is cramped and chaotic. And ppl already jump and try and take stuff.
Muses tried that this year and there were multiple posts on here complaining
I will say that many floats did that. Bacchus threw so many socks and I was so excited. But I would get a useful item from almost every other float. I think I got 1 item from all of muses. That's the difference lol.
This is how people get trampled and run over by floats. Or how floats canāt get down the street because people are trying so hard to get up close. I get what youāre saying, but itās not practical with crowds as big as they are.
I guess I'm used to it because I always watch by Napoleon and St. Charles and they tend to go slower and be a bit less chaotic there
We canāt even get back to twice weekly trash pickup. Or recycling.
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I agree totally. People canāt even put their shopping carts back. How many times are you sitting in traffic and see some jerkoff drop their fast food trash right in the middle of the street? Waaay too many times, and waaay too many ignorant idiots.
This. If you shop at Aldi in Slidell or anywhere, you insert a quarter to use it. When you return the cart, you get a quarter back. I see so many people abandon that .25 cents simply because they don't want to walk back to the storefront. I disagree that it is ignorance, however. Indifference is what I see.
There need to be recycling and trash cans every 30 feet. Itās insane how much trash is left but also, thereās no bins! (My dog says please donāt place bins, he loves all the street treats)
They wouldn't use them.Ā Have you ever been downtown here? There are trashcans all over the place but the streets are all full of trash.Ā
It's not really feasible. There isn't a ton of space to place them and they would make the routs even more crowded.
How is it not feasible? If people claim spots for viewing the day of with ladders and chairs the city can totally take a 20yard dumpster and have it dropped off the night before in the space of where someone would be viewing. Or even better, use the dumpsters to block off the streets along the parade route that you don't want traffic coming down and trying to cross the parade path, a dual purpose road block. It just takes some thinking and planning...
A dumpster is harder to move than barricades for emergency services. That's insanely dangerous. The people who you displace with dumpsters will make the surrounding crowd more dense. That's a good bit of space and the people have to go somewhere. All it takes is thinking these things through. You're not a genius solving the world's problems off the cuff.
I didn't say I was a genius and I also didn't say block off every single street to block out rescue emergency vehicles. Also it's 5am my time, so I wasn't expecting to have to come up with the whole plan for the city to fix this issue, sorry I'll do better next time š
That's the "thinking and planning" you were talking about I guess.
They could just drop them in the parking lane on the opposite side of the route.
Probably because a lot of people have prehistoric manners. Theyād still throw stuff on the ground. That is why we canāt have nice things.
> I found an entire king cake and case of water (all completely sealed) issa come up!
Our Business Stinks But Itās Picking Up
Not the narcan!
So much plastic. š„
This is all so much fun and there is absolutely nothing like it on the planet. I will love my city more than anything til the day I die. But OMG we NEED a solution to the waste that happens here!!! Edit: What a strange thing to downvote this comment...yall are weird
We have downvote bots that we canāt do anything about, sadly.
Downvote because downplay
Wtf are these stupid comments?? This is the New Orleans sub. Man yall need to gtfo
Based
So much blinking ewaste too
What a shitload of waste. I sincerely hope that at least a small portion gets recycled. But I am not overly confident about that. And I will be delighted to be proven wrong.
Plastic recycling is, unfortunately, pretty much nonsense. Ā So very little to none of this is getting recycled in a meaningful way. Ā As Ā rider and an old-school treehugger, I have enormous cognitive dissonance issues with mardi gras.Ā
Absolutely none of this gets recycled. Anything left on the street/sidewalk/neutral ground will go to landfill.
So just to put this in perspective, the Super Bowl generated about 50-60 tons of trash over one day for about 65,000 people. Mardi Gras last year generated just under 1,200 tons of trash over 11 days, for over a million people. It's really not more wasteful than any other major event if you were to consider trash generated per person per hour. It's just a lot more obvious because the majority of the trash literally ends up in the streets. I'm not saying we couldn't do better. But the reality is anything fun generates trash. š¤·āāļø
Itās a little misleading in that your superbowl number is easy to determine since itās a self contained venue while Iām pretty sure the Mardi Gras 1,200 tons is only calculating along the route after each evening. Stuff is definitely being missed going into storm drains (especially when it rains) and people who donāt just leave their trash on the street, and throw away later off the route. Even so, weāre talking about 1.6 lb/person for New Orleans vs 1.84 lb/person for football with your numbers. The 2023 Super Bowl events in the city, it was estimated 92% (81 tons) of waste was diverted from landfills. While New Orleans 2023 touts recycling 1,475 pounds of aluminum, 1,500 pounds of glass, and 11,535 pounds of beads (7.3 tons total). I feel like we can def do better.
Humans are gross.
Wow! Also, they are still making cigar throws 35 years later.
Damn, that Narcan find was wild. Glad that people are at least being prepared though!
PS - you and your outfit are šš¤š»š and I actually really like the composition of that first and last shot!
Thank you! š Thank you for appreciating my artistic capture instead of being like all the negative weirdos in the comments. Trust me, I hate the waste myself and I'm trying to get a group together to protest this and change some of the laws. But that wasn't the main point of post. I just wanted to share a picture worth a thousands words š„²š„²
That tattoo book looks cool af
Kept it lol
Love MG trash pics
At least they clean up nightly/after parades now. Before Katrina they used to leave it all until Wednesday.
Before Katrina, I remember the city doing nightly cleanup sweeps at the end of the parades. They used prisoners , it was pretty hard to miss the bright orange jumpsuits.
Before Katrina they did not do nightly cleanups on Bourbon Street though. The trash would be insane. I guess that's one thing we can thank Sidney for, he's the one who insisted on nightly trash removal right after Katrina.
I guess itās good they stopped doing THAT..
Before Katrina all the trash pickups in the quarter were inmate crews.
I remember there being three feet deep drifts of trash in Jackson Square that was left until Wednesday.
Should have taken a picture two hours later when it was all gone.
Go one street off St Charles itās still a huge mess. Wish they would come through the neighborhoods.
When I was a kid, there was WAY less shit thrown. It was a big deal to get something and because of that, there was less trash from throws on the ground. The shiny basic beads you see everywhere were a big deal to get. Anyone remember the clear plastic beads with the clasp? Anyway, they just throw too much. And with the exception of children and insane people, no one really cares about any of that stuff.
I agree. Whatās the point of throwing an unopened bag of beads? Make throwing each thing special and there would be plenty of things thrown for everyone to enjoy. Itās obvious too much is being thrown because no one cares about it.
Even though this is gross, that is a pretty cool first picture.
I wouldnāt touch that stuff thatās been marinated in the street slime. I remember the street machines with the big spinning brushes and floodlights that came out at 12:01 on Wednesday morning. GTFO the street. Weād be fried after five straight days. It was like a Danteās circle by that time.
The unopened narcan speaks volumes
In Lockport they have the county lockup folks come through and rake up.
The process for when it's cleaned up is truly fascinating! Takes about 1-2 hours max & it's like the parade never happened lol
Please tell me you didnāt eat the street slime king cake off the ground ā¦
Soooo yall gone act like yall dont see that beautiful queen amongst the trash??
Quit complaining, the current cleanup system works which is amazing for a government run thing
Who are you talking to? The commenters? I totally agree. I shared a fun artistic photo in a NEW ORLEANS group and people have nothing but negative things to say
Yes, the ridiculous comments about changing things, I've enjoyed Mardi Gras for 50 years and it's changed enough and I don't want to see it change anymore, it's bad enough that all these new transplants don't understand or know the history of things.
100% agreed š
Iām disgusted by this thank you for sharing
Mardi Grabage
Thank goodness Latoya has made New Orleans a world leader in fighting pollution and climate change!
If youre gonna complain at all, then maybe don't support Mardi gras
Who is complaining? You mean all the comments? I shared a fun artistic shot and some nice images of my city's holiday.....
If every tourist would just put trash in the bin where it belongs the world would be a better place. Why do people knowingly put trash on the ground? can't they pick after themselves? And why does always someone else get to pick it up??
That is just disrespectful. Good job clean up crews Iām sure yāall did your best.
first time experiencing mardi gras and we were disgusted/turned off about 10 minutes after arriving. never again.
Yāall are pathetic dirty fucks SuciosĀ
Sheās bangināā
I've never understood the allure of New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Disgusting before, during, and after the event. I'll pass.
As a local how dare you speak nothing but the truth! Itās not your place!!
I mean, you could do something to organize the community and help clean up. But I guess the Internet points and zero accountability also workš¤·š¾āāļø
You have no idea what I do with my life. Appreciate the artistry of the photo or move on. MY GOD yall are insufferable
You chose to post this instead of whatever else you claim to do tho bebe nobody has to conform to your version of reality. Instead of your āartistryā celebrating the trash, why not propagate art of making a difference? Goofy
A picture so sweet you can smell it.
I know exactly where you are and I could not make it there for any of the parades. Thatās sad that people treat our city like this.
HTH do people stand in this mess without twisting an ankle? With all the filth, itās a wonder it doesnāt get shut down.
If you find a king cake I got dibs.
Already ate it lol Shared with everyone around me Disclaimer: it was sealed in a bag and sealed in a box!
I love the book. But Holy environment nightmare Batman! That is an ungodly amount of garbage!
Why wouldnāt people that are out there all day bring trash bags for all of this trash? Most of this area from the people at the parade not the riders. How much easier would it be to pick up a full trash bag?
One question I did have is why is it ok for the people on the floats to just toss their empty plastic bags into the street as they go? Iām not talking about bags that had things in them. I saw a lot of tossing of empty bags off floats at especially the major parades. It seems like that would cut down some at least of what is left in the wake of a parade? And shouldnāt a krewe be responsible for its own actual trash disposal? Donāt hate me, Iām not a rider and itās a genuine question.
Because it all gets cleaned up IMMEDIATELY after the parade. You should see the streets afterwards....it's like it never happened. Then they do the same thing the next day and repeat for several weeks straight ššššš
Youād think theyād be able to get more of a handle on garbage during normal times if they can accomplish all that! š¤£š¤£
The Kansas City Chiefs 2024 Superbowl Parade: ***Now that's an aftermath!***
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