Green Daily

After revelers packed it up and went home Tuesday night, Washington, DC Park Service workers were greeted with what may have been the most litter ever left behind after a single event in US history. Apparently, attendees left behind a historic 130-ton mountain of garbage strewn across downtown that included all sorts of personal effects like sleeping bags, chairs, blankest, and loads of plasticrap memorabilia that partiers had purchased and then discarded.

According to DC spokesperson Mafara Hobson, it sounds like anyone wanting to snag a truckload of free Obama gear should have hung around Tuesday evening, "they left behind Obama hats, Obama bags, Obama socks." Of course, a lot of the blame for the litter falls on planners, who removed a ton of trashcans for security reasons. Once again, we are faced with pretty stark reminder of America's throw-away culture -- clean up crews even came across a few abandoned tables. The festivities had been labeled a "green inauguration," but there's certainly room for debate as to whether it lived up to its name. Hopefully, there were no mishaps in the handling of Porta-pottypalooza.