What it takes to clean up Times Square after NYE

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Nearly1 million people crowded into Times Square on New Year's Eve to watch the ball drop and ring in 2015 with confetti

But it only takes 178 sanitation workers to clean it up the next day.

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More than 2,000 pounds of confetti is dropped at the strike of midnight by an official confetti master (yes, that's a job) and his team.

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