(23 Jul 2025)
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New Orleans – 23 July 2025
1. Pile of trash sitting in the French Quarter
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sidney Torres, Owner, IV Waste:
"It’s almost like you do a great job and you get punished for it and it’s very disappointing because, you know, I’m responsible for 95% of the city’s garbage, over 130,000 homes. This is a very small part but when you look at the overall, you know it’s the most visited part, the most visual part and people really come to enjoy the French Quarter when they come to New Orleans. When people talk about New Orleans they always talk about the French Quarter."
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New Orleans – 23 July 2025
3. Various of spray truck spraying soap in French Quarter
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sidney Torres, Owner, IV Waste:
"You know, it’s completely changed the way of business it’s changed the way of people wanting to spend more time down there, spend money down there and visit. I mean it’s really made a difference."
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New Orleans – 23 July 2025
5. Various of IV Waste workers pressure spraying sidewalks
6. Street sweeper goes by
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Leander Nunez, Supervisor, IV Waste:
"Pretty much, water truck comes down just to keep the trash on the ground. Pressure washers blow the trash in the street. Sweepers come pick it up and then the water truck which you see here is this final pass, which we try to mix up a little heavy mixture just to make it smell."
8. Wide of spray truck goes by spraying soap
9. Close up of Felix’s employee shucking oyster
10. Wide of Danny Conwill showing off his restaurant
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Conwill, Owner, Felix’s Restaurant & Oyster Bar:
"In New Orleans, the French Quarter has had a long history of not smelling so great to put it politely. Ever since IV Waste came back to the French Quarter, literally within a day or two it started smelling great again. All the old odors went away."
12. Close up to zoom out of truck spraying soap
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Conwill, Owner, Felix’s Restaurant & Oyster Bar:
"We have overcome a tremendous challenge and why screw up a good thing? When you have a good thing going why do you screw it up? You know, to use a baseball analogy it’s like an unforced error. There’s no reason for this to happen. Everybody is happy. Businesses, residents, visitors, it’s unanimous. Everybody is supportive of IV Waste."
14. Various of pressure washer
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Peggy Melancon, Baton Rouge Resident:
"The sidewalks, they look like they’ve been pressure washed. I’m not sure if they have or not but the streets as well, so it just makes the aesthetics of the city more beautiful."
16. Close up of IV Waste bins
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17. SOUNDBITE (English) Sidney Torres, Owner, IV Waste:
"So New Orleans has a reputation of this type of stuff and it’s got to stop. It’s got to stop so we can get people to stop leaving the city, people to stop leaving New Orleans to go move somewhere else to raise their family because they can’t do business in a place that they can’t get basic services. And it starts with stuff like this."
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New Orleans – 23 July 2025
18. Wide of street sweeper going by
19. Wide of sign that reads, "Keep IV Waste"
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