New Year’s Eve in numbers

2010 is the number on most people’s lips at the moment.

But while residents, families and visitors alike all revelled in our New Year’s Eve celebrations, the clean-up operation that followed involved a few numbers of its own.

According to a City of Sydney spokesperson the cleanup operation “utilised six small tipping trucks, six high pressure steamers, seven garbage compactors‬‪, six roadway sweepers‬‪ and six footway and plaza sweepers‬‪ and two footway scrubbers to clean up the streets in Sydney.”

More than 300 city staff were involved in cleaning up after the event.

They collected over 60 tonnes of rubbish, of which 80 percent is to be recycled.

The cleanup operation followed 1.5 million people celebrating around the city and harbour foreshores to watch the fireworks welcome in the New Year.

Footage of the fireworks and celebrations was broadcast to 47 countries, reaching a potential audience of one billion people.

15 months were spent planning the event with this year’s festivities already in the pipeline.

The blue moon on the Harbour Bridge celebrated a phenomenon that occurs on New Year’s Eve only once every two decades.