is about what happens when two married couples — who are neighbors -- swap partners after an evening of partying. No spoilers but let’s just say complications arise. The show premieres Friday, Jan. 17. Starz originals stream on its app and website.
With the sun rising, people stumbled out of bars and saluted the trash collectors. A drunken couple shrieked and leaped onto sidewalks to escape from the cascade of waste as Nunez muttered about Bourbon Street’s “typical foolishness.”From the perspective of the grizzled veteran Nunez, the cleanup was a lighter lift than in previous years, likely due to the chilling effect of a
“Only thing I can judge it by down here is by the trash,” Nunez said. “There was people down here for Mardi Gras, but I don’t think the trash is the way it used to be.”IV Waste has the logistics down to a science to get the French Quarter fully cleaned up by around 10 a.m. each day, said owner and president Sidney Torres.After wetting down the trash, teams wielding pressure washers spray garbage off the sidewalks. Tractors bearing bristles and nicknamed “toothbrushes” scrub the asphalt, targeting beads. Bulldozers plow into the piles and dump them into trucks capable of bearing 40,000 pounds (18,144 kilograms) of waste at a time. Small teams on foot armed with brooms sweep anything left over into dust bins.
Then comes the final touch: a citrus spray Torres calls “lemon fresh.”“It’s not just fragrance like putting perfume on a pig. It has enzymes in it that kill the bacteria,” Torres said. “You can have a clean street, but if you smell the puke and the stale beer and liquor that’s washed out onto the streets, it’s a foul odor and people remember that.”
Over the past three years, a collection of organizations has stepped up efforts to improve the sustainability of Mardi Gras and cut down on the more than 2 million tons (1.8 million metric tons) of waste generated during the heart of the city’s Carnival season.
“It’s almost an unfathomable number and feels like an uphill battle,” said Franziska Trautmann, cofounder of the glass recycling company Glass Half Full. “But the team is noticing a difference.”swimming across the Ångerman River, some 300 kilometers (187 miles) northwest of Stockholm, in the annual spring migration toward summer grazing pastures.
The program kicked off April 15, a week ahead of schedule due to warm weather and early moose movement.Johan Erhag, SVT’s project manager for “The Great Moose Migration,” said this year’s crew will have produced 478 hours of footage — “which we are very satisfied with,” he wrote in an email to The Associated Press Saturday evening.
This undated photo, issued by SVT, shows Moose in Junsele, Sweden during preparations for the livestream ‘The Great Moose Migration’ to document the annual Moose migration near Kullberg in northern Sweden. (SVT via AP)This undated photo, issued by SVT, shows Moose in Junsele, Sweden during preparations for the livestream ‘The Great Moose Migration’ to document the annual Moose migration near Kullberg in northern Sweden. (SVT via AP)