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Before the age of recycling, the success of Mardi Gras in Orleans Parish was sometimes jokingly measured by the amount of trash collected by the New Orleans Sanitation Department. However, the success of Mardi Gras is truly measured by the estimated number of attendees to parades, which in 2009 was approximately one million.
