New York City Honors Winning Giants by Showering Tons of Litter on Them

So the stupid NY Giants beat my team in a little football game you may have seen on Sunday and New York City threw them a tickertape parade yesterday. A couple of thousand pounds of shredded paper and five TONS of confetti later and the Big Apple has one big ass mess to clean up. Green Daily wonders 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.

The New York Times has an article about the festivities but doesn’t say jack about how or if all that paper waste is going to get cleaned up. In the face of all the oil spills , depleted uranium bullets flying around, and smokestacks in the world a couple of tons of paper being wasted maybe isn’t such a big deal, but it’s still an interesting ungreen end to a depressing story. 18-1 sucks.

Link [Green Daily] & [New York Times]