After the new president Obama 's historical inauguration oath ceremony, the biggest trash mountain in history

Obama 's new presidential inauguration ceremony held in Washington, DC on January 20 (local time) the other day. After the historical event, which is said to have gathered about 2.5 million people, there seems to be garbage of the historical scale which is different from the events such as past inauguration ceremonies and Independence Day.

Details are as below.The Trash Was Historic, Too - washingtonpost.com

After the inauguration ceremony, WASHINGTON DC garbage truck collected more than 130 tons of garbage, and still a lot of garbage still remained.National MallAbout 100 tons of garbage was picked up by the National Park Service staff around the White House. The amount of garbage discharged at the National Mall is usually about 3 tons a day and about 17 tons even at fireworks on Independence Day.

In addition to the large-scale publicity that is said to be 2.5 million people, this historic garbage mountain seems to be a big factor because most trash boxes were removed for security reasons. In addition to ordinary garbage such as disposable body warmers, bottles, paper cups, newspapers and food, blankets, gloves, tables, etc., Obama 's hat such as Obama' s cap, Obama 's bag, Obama socks etc were also left in large quantities. Up to nowEcological inauguration ceremonyIt was supposed to have been planned to be ...

A state of officials who pick up garbage at the National Mall.


Garbage left around the venue.
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By the way, in preparation for the inauguration ceremony in the vicinity of the venue5000 simple toiletsIt was said that this was the largest number in the history of America as the number of simple toilets installed at one time.