I kept seeing over and over this past week about how the new ball for Times Square's New Eve event is going green.
The revamped ball is covered with 9,576 light-emitting diodes, or LED bulbs, that will use the same amount of power as 10 toasters or one oven. But the lights will be twice as bright as the mixture of incandescent and halogen bulbs used for last year's ball.
That is great to hear that they want to go "green" but is it really going to offset the amount of waste that is generated by the crowd that gathers to see this new "green" ball.
As revelers headed home early Monday, the first day of 2007, work crews moved in to sweep up the remnants of 2006. Their mission: picking up 3.5 tons of confetti (a record-setting amount), as well as sandwich bags, food wrappers and other debris from the big bash.
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