(5 Mar 2025)
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New Orleans – 3 March 2025
1. Various of Mardi Gras parades
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New Orleans – 27 February 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Brett Davis, Founding Director, Grounds Krewe:
"Mardi Gras, carnival; it is twelve days long. So it is partying day and night. That duration means that what we host here really is the largest event in the entire world and it’s also the largest waste producing event in the entire world."
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New Orleans – 3 March 2025
3. Various of parade trash
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New Orleans – 27 February 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Brett Davis, Founding Director, Grounds Krewe:
"Imported, plastic, beads, cups, footballs, trinkets that they throw off the floats there’s so many of them now that a lot of them the majority of them are not caught, left to just stay on the ground and then end up as trash."
5. Brett Davis dumps trash
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Brett Davis, Founding Director, Grounds Krewe:
"So we’re accumulating all of the cans, beads and bottles here, displaying them in dumpsters and then we said let’s go even a step beyond that and set up a really cool art installation."
7. Various of cans in dumpster
8. Various of artist Erika Moore painting and creating art installation
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Erika Moore, Artist:
"My biggest problem with Mardi Gras is seeing all the trash that accumulates after a parade. So this was two perfect things, art and recycling."
10. Wide of Moore working on art
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New Orleans – 3 March 2025
11. Mid of parade
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New Orleans – 27 February 2025
12. Close-up showing column of cans
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Franziska Trautmann, Chief Executive Officer, Glass Half Full:
"In just 11 days of parading we usually produce about 2.5 million pounds of waste for Mardi Gras. It’s almost like an unfathomable number and it feels like an uphill battle but again, the team is noticing a difference, like year over year, people are starting to kind of wake up to the issue I think."
14. Franziska Trautmann dumps trash
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Franziska Trautmann, Chief Executive Officer, Glass Half Full:
"I got into this work really through my passion for coastal restoration and making a difference there. And that led me to glass recycling and turning it into sand and using it that way. And I think that was just kind of the gateway for me to realize how much better we can be in Louisiana specifically about the waste that we create and making sure that we’re recycling it properly and just trying to be better stewards of our incredible sportsman’s paradise, right? Like, if our whole tagline for our state is sportsman’s paradise, how are we not protecting that?"
16. Brett Davis shows recycle bag
17. Wide of ‘Recycle World’
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of thousands of visitors converge on New Orleans every year to celebrate Mardi Gras with parades and partying, leaving behind an avalanche of waste.
That’s why local organizations have teamed up to create Recycle Dat, lead by a group called Grounds Krewe which promotes waste prevention.
Brett Davis, the Founding Director for Grounds Krewe says Mardi Gras throws have become a problem for the city, "a lot of them are not caught, left to just stay on the ground and then end up as trash."
This year the recycle krewe wanted to make it easy for revelers to recycle so they set up their temporary ‘Recycle World’ on historic St. Charles Avenue where an art installation is made up of recycled cans.
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