Republicans are very tidy and environmentally friendly people.
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On an average day at the Mall, folks leave behind three or four tons of garbage, said Line, who has no gag order when it comes to trash.
After this year's inauguration, the Park Service scooped up 95 tons of trash on the Mall, which makes sense given The Washington Post's still-controversial estimate of 1.8 million people on the parade route and the Mall.
On Sept. 12, those at the Tea Party demonstrations along with the Black Family Reunion, another event that had a permit for the Mall that day, left five to six tons of trash, Line said.
It was "slightly more than a normal day," he said, but far less than the usual 15 or 16 tons of trash that several hundred thousand people leave on the Mall after the Fourth of July fireworks every year.