city Department of Sanitation ended up picking up<\/a> a horrendous 41.54 tons of tossed food, discarded clothing and other rubbish that was littered across the 2.5-mile route of Thursday\u2019s Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade.<\/p>\nMillions of revelers crowd the streets of Manhattan last week for the annual Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Stephen Yang for the NY Post<\/p>\n
The dirty post-parade haul was equal in weight to a chubby humpback whale.<\/p>\n
It also was significantly more than the 36 tons collected after last year\u2019s famed shindig, which drew packed crowds despite the rainy weather.<\/p>\n
Still, this year\u2019s disgusting tonnage is relatively small potatoes compared to the decade-high 65 tons scooped up after the 2023 parade. An average of 62 annual tons were collected in the years before.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn addition to the usual confetti and shredded paper, a cold sunny day like [Thursday] also means a lot of coffee cups, doughnut boxes and extra layers of clothing that marchers leave behind,\u201d a rep for the Sanitation Department told The Post.<\/p>\n
More than 180 city Sanitation workers take to the streets after the parade to quickly clean up the mess. NYC Sanitation\/X<\/p>\n
About 42 tons of trash were collected after this year\u2019s parade. Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Clothing discarded by marchers is among the leftover trash collected. Robert Miller<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year, on the other hand, was cold and rainy, so while the crowds were much smaller, we picked up a lot of heavy wet ponchos.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year, 38 street-sweeping vehicles and 29 collection trucks roamed the roads as the Sanitation Department put on a parade of its own after the event to quickly snatch up the unwelcome holiday leftovers.<\/p>\n
Nearly five dozen Sanitation workers also were on hand armed with hand brooms and backpack blowers to pick up even the smallest pieces of confetti.<\/p>\n
A total of 188 workers were on the job to get the streets reopened within 90 minutes after the event.<\/p>\n
Central Park West \u2014 where the parade kicks off \u2014 reopened at 12:20 p.m.<\/p>\n
There were 34 balloons, four mini-balloons, 28 floats, 33 clown groups and 11 marching bands flooding Big Apple streets for the annual party.<\/p>\n
More than 3.5 million people in New York City and 50 million-plus viewers at home typically watch the parade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re thankful for the Big Apple\u2019s street sweepers. The city Department of Sanitation ended up picking up a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8991,11181,57,9,24,55,197,54,56,8992,58],"class_list":["post-56824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-department-of-sanitation","tag-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-life","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-sanitation-department","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}