(23 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++ALL SOUNDBITES COVERED OR PARTIALLY COVERED++
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New Orleans – 23 July 2025
1. Pile of trash sitting in the French Quarter
2. Street sweeper goes by
3. 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. 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."
4. Various of spray truck spraying soap in French Quarter
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No location given- 23 July 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sidney Torres IV, IV Waste Owner:
"When people talk about New Orleans they always talk about the French Quarter. It’s almost like you do a great job and you get punished for it and it’s very disappointing. 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
6. Various of IV Waste workers pressure spraying sidewalks
7. 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."
8. Mid of IV Waste worker pressure spraying sidewalk
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Conwill, Owner, Felix’s Restaurant & Oyster Bar:
"We have overcome a tremendous challenge. There’s no reason for this to happen. Everybody is happy. Businesses, residents, visitors, it’s unanimous. Everybody is supportive of IV Waste."
10. Various of spray trucks
11. Wide of sign that reads, "Keep IV Waste"
STORYLINE:
The stench of trash and regret throughout the French Quarter has been scrubbed away thanks to a change in garbage collectors that New Orleanians say has transformed one of America’s favorite party hotspots.
Residents and a chorus of officials say IV Waste, a company run by a man known as the city’s “Trash King", has cracked the code for sanitary success and received near-universal acclaim after receiving an emergency contract in December last year to temporarily manage the Quarter’s waste.
But on Wednesday, a civil court judge allowed Mayor LaToya Cantrell to cancel IV Waste’s contract and install a new garbage collector for the Quarter at the end of July amid broader litigation still working its way through state courts over who will a receive long-term contract, worth tens of millions of dollars, to manage the neighborhood’s trash.
"We have overcome a tremendous challenge. There’s no reason for this to happen," says the Daniel Conwill, owner of Felix’s Restaurant and Oyster Bar, which has been open in New Orleans since the 1940’s.
Conwill has been supportive of IV Waste servicing the Quarter’s trash needs and says, "literally within a day or two it started smelling great again. All the old odors went away", he said.
Meanwhile Sidney Torres, who owns IV Waste LLC, is disappointed about the cancellation. "When people talk about New Orleans they always talk about the French Quarter. It’s almost like you do a great job and you get punished for it," he said.
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