Sanitation workers clean up garbage, including thousands of champagne bottles, left by revellers after an all-night new year's party on Copacabana beach early January 1. More than two-and-a-half million people gathered along Copacabana to witness a 15-minute fireworks display at midnight to celebrate the beginning of a new year. Officials estimate that 750 tons of garbage was cleared from Rio's most famous beach.

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