Mardi Gras transforms New Orleans into waste bin

As Mardi Gras continues in New Orleans today, aside from the scantily clad dancing girls, the parties, the drunk people falling all over themselves in the street, there is also the unmistakable smell of trash in the air - mostly from beer, vomit, urine and discarded plastic beads. The trash cans are over flowing and the portable toilets are starting to smell.

The city is doing well with dealing with the mess and smell however, employing huge cleaning trucks that clean the streets and leave a lemony scent behind.

It seemed as if some of the party goers wouldn't even have cared that much about how clean the streets were - they were there to have a good time and forget about their recession troubles; even for just a few hours.
The trash was more a reminder of how good the party was than anything else, and although the trash does continue to pile up throughout the Carnival, the city do their best to maintain the mess.