How green is a ticker tape parade?
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last few days, you know that the New York Giants won the Super Bowl on Sunday. In order to fully celebrate their unanticipated win against the New England Patriots, the City of New York is throwing a parade in the team's honor today (it started about half an hour ago)! As is the tradition, the parade will be a ticker-tape one (actually it will be mostly shredded newspaper, ticker-tape is hard to come by these days). The city is anticipating that approximately 5 tons of confetti will flutter down over the course of the parade today. Elizabeth Berger, President of the Alliance for Downtown New York (a group that is distributing 1,000 pounds of shredded paper to buildings along the parade route) says that if those confetti strips were laid end-to-end, they would cover the distance between New York and the Patriot's home stadium.
I understand the need to celebrate the Giant's win, but it seems deeply un-green to spread that much paper around the city. The article in the New York Times doesn't say anything about how the paper will be cleaned up or processed once the parade is over.
[via The Morning News]
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