Nearly 1 million people crowded into Times Square on New Year's Eve to watch the ball drop and ring in 2015 with confetti.
But it only takes 178 sanitation workers to clean it up the next day.
More than 2,000 pounds of confetti is dropped at the strike of midnight by an official confetti master (yes, that's a job) and his team.
#NYC #timessquare #newyork #HNY Happy!! #colorfulcountdown #newyearseve #NYE #nyc #timessquare #confetti #balld... pic.twitter.com/bSP7oRnBgi— ooopsididit (@ooopsididit) January 1, 2015
At http://t.co/AirVV2hOeO -- Goodnight 2014.#NYEAtTheHyattTsquare #timessquare #newyearseve #confetti #nyc pic.twitter.com/X2LOzipseY— scenesfromnyc (@postcardsfromny) January 1, 2015
The 178 workers use 26 mechanical brooms, 25 trucks, 38 leaf blowers and other assorted equipment to clean up the mess made ringing in the new year, according to the City of New York Department of Sanitation.
@TimesSquareNYC workers ready to clean up all that confetti tonight w/a smile on their faces to boot! #FoxNews2015 pic.twitter.com/Cw1Kmef781— laura ingle (@lauraingle) December 31, 2014
Workers get started not long after the celebration ends, waiting only for the crowds to leave before they start cleaning up. It won't take long before the biggest party of the year is cleaned up, according to Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia.
Last year, New York's New Year's sanitation team cleaned up about 52.3 tons of trash.
In other news.....Clean up begins in Times Square after a long night of New Year's 2015 celebration. pic.twitter.com/GzsQcjUAct— Dimitri R. Jefferson (@DimitriRyanJ) January 1, 2015
Mechanical brooms and hand brooms put DSNY finishing touches on Times Square New Year's cleanup. pic.twitter.com/SdncLonXE7— NYC Sanitation (@NYCSanitation) January 1, 2015
PHOTO (@AP): Sanitation workers clean up after New Year’s Eve celebrations in New York City's Times Square pic.twitter.com/I02lBpGPfG— TheBlazeNOW (@TheBlazeNOW) January 1, 2015
The big cleanup is on in @TimesSquareNYC in New York #newyork #newyorkcity @nyc @newyork pic.twitter.com/r4kcstabjO— Gary Hershorn (@GaryHershorn) January 1, 2015
DSNY worker with backpack blower tackles confetti left by one million revelers in Times Square last night. pic.twitter.com/8zJhWT0fum— NYC Sanitation (@NYCSanitation) January 1, 2015
Til next year!