One Hundred Tons of Garbage Collected After Obama Inauguration

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One Hundred Tons of Garbage Collected After Obama Inauguration One-hundred tons of trash were collected by city and federal sanitation workers after President Obama's Jan. 20 inauguration in Washington, D.C.

Cristina Corbin

FOXNews.com

Friday, January 23, 2009

The scene looked more like the leftovers of a massive college frat party.

Heaps of plastic bottles, food wrappers, soda cans, and newspapers, which blanketed the National Mall Wednesday morning, were a stark contrast to the stateliness and splendor of President Barack Obama's inaugural ceremony a day before.

One hundred tons of trash were collected by city and federal sanitation workers, according to Department of Public Works public information officer Linda Grant.

In comparison, 40 tons of garbage were collected in New York City's Time Square on New Year's Day 2009 -- after one million people attended the celebration -- according to the city's Department of Sanitation.

Grant said Washington's massive inaugural cleanup effort began at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

"By 5:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, we collected about 90 tons of the garbage," she said.

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crimes against the environment........where's that carbon tax?

[G8 Diplomat]

There’s a pun in that title somewhere....

There will be lots of garbage left over after the 0’s term is up...

[Navy Patriot]

The Zero environmentalists, GIGO, garbage in, garbage out.

[NowApproachingMidnight]

In other news, murders and rapes were down by 2000% in the ghettos of America on the day of the inauguration.

[nuconvert]

Ahhh... the environmentally conscious leaving their trash all over.

[rellimpank]

—that’s peanuts compared to the Sturgis , SD bike rally—except there it mostly goes into dumpsters—

[OKSooner]

There’s a better metaphor. I’m gonna have to save that one in my quotes/headlines file for later use.

[o_zarkman44]

Change = Ghett-Obama. Lovely of his supporters to support the Green initiative by trashing out the National Mall.......

[Steamburg]

Just think how much more garbage they missed by not continuing up Pennsylvania Avenue.

[lilycicero]

And half of it was Aretha’s hat.

[amishman]

There was more than 100 tons of garbage there during the inauguration.

[DYngbld]

With are the homeless in that area, I am surprised there were any soda cans left. I would have picked those up. Have you seen the price for aluminum?

[DYngbld]

That works out to be about 1/4 pound of trash per person, I suppose it could have been worse.

[DYngbld]

That works out to be about 1/4 pound of trash per person, I suppose it could have been worse.

[awakened]

Ohhhhhh how that article title just BEGS for it.....

[stuartcr]

Doesn’t that come down to about 0.1 lbs per person if there were 2M people there? I guess that’s a little less than 2 oz of trash each.

[Eagle Eye]

Too bad they let so much of the garbage escape.

[MrB]

And after the equally large promise keepers rally on the mall,

it was CLEANER than before they arrived.

Yes, I’m saying our people ARE better people than theirs.
Irrefutable.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

If my math is right, they could have picked up another 45-50 tons of garbage in the Capitol building...