As you know most of the people rush to landmark places like Eiffel Tower in Paris, The Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney , Singapore skyline, Great Wall in Beijing  , , Burj Khalifa in Dubai etc to see the fireworks to bring in new year.

This year new year eve was special for Dubai as Dubai recently won the bid to host Expo2020. The glittering fireworks display that lasted around six minutes spanned over 100 kilometres (60 miles) of the Dubai coast, which is home to man-made islands and Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest tower.

Thousands of revellers in Dubai and  millions from across the globe joined this Dubai celebration which peaked with world?s biggest fireworks display.

The Roads and Transport Authority of Dubai had made remarkable arrangements as the night is usually marked by intense traffic movement. The arrangements included 24-hour operation of the Dubai Metro, free bus-ride around the key venues, and provision of special cruises for revellers to watch the fireworks in Dubai.

In Dubai it was all about six minutes, 400 locations, 100km shoreline and 400,000 fireworks.

The performance required 100 computers to synchronise the pyrotechnics, along with a choreographed musical soundtrack. More than 200 expert technicians put in 5,000 hours of work to ensure that the fireworks? timing was accurate down to the millisecond.

Starting off with a dramatic countdown through a display of effects racing up to the pinnacle of Burj Khalifa, 828 metres high, the fireworks began with spectacular sequences including a colourful salute to the nation with the colours of the UAE National Flag.

Having said all those beautiful things about record breaking fireworks , can you imagine how much of waste this kind of celebration or crowd would have generated.

6 tonnes of waste was collected after New Year eve in Dubai.

Thanks to the preparedness /Clean Up Plan of Dubai Municipality?s Waste Management Department who had deployed a team of 80 workers and 10 supervisors to collect the rubbish, particularly focusing on the areas of Jumeirah Beach and Burj Khalifa .

The team of workers started collecting rubbish from 1am on January 1 until 5pm, and about 6,200 kilograms of rubbish was collected in 1,800 bags from the places where the main celebrations were organized. Isn?t it shocking?

Most of this rubbish collected was litter, such as leftover food, plastic bags, paper, aluminium cans and refuse of fireworks.

I don?t know what to say here but I personally feel such lavish celebrations are wastage of money , time , resources and pollution of environment(may not be by high tech /pollution free firework but by increased carbon footprint due to heavy traffic that night).