Nola.com – Volunteers clean the riverfront area in the French Quarter during Love the Boot Week
The French Quarter Management District held a French Quarter litter removal and beautification event around the Moonwalk Riverfront Park as a kick off to Love The Boot Week. Over 30 volunteers in yellow t-shirts and gloves picked up litter and cleaned benches along the Mississippi River in the French Quarter for a couple hours. To read the full Nola.com […]
Fox 8 – Volunteers Clean up the French Quarter ahead of Festival Crowds for “Love the Boot Week”
Dozens of volunteers hit Decatur Street early Saturday morning, scrubbing and sweeping in preparation for the French Quarter Festival crowds set to descend next week. The cleanup was part of “Love the Boot Week,” Louisiana’s largest litter removal and beautification campaign. The goal is to hold 1,000 cleanup events across all 64 parishes by Sunday, […]
Keep the Quarter Clean’s 2025 Love the Boot Week Cleanup Event
FQMD is hosting our third annual Keep the Quarter Clean/Love the Boot Week event. Volunteers are provided with t-shirts, gloves, water, sunscreen, & grabbers to pick up trash all along the Mississippi River between Jax Brewery and the French Market. Volunteers are to meet at the FQMD tent at the Jean Baptiste Baudrau II historic […]
Join Keep the Quarter Clean at the 2024 Keep Louisiana Beautiful State Conference
On October 23-24, the Keep Louisiana Beautiful State Conference will take place at the Crowne Plaza Executive Center in Baton Rouge. All are invited to hear from experts on topics like using technology to combat litter, transforming waste into coastal protection, and planning a household hazardous waste day. Learn and discuss ways to make Louisiana […]
Keep the Quarter Clean Hotel Collaboration
An Initiative of the French Quarter Management District The French Quarter Management District (FQMD) is excited to announce the latest initiative of its Keep the Quarter Clean Campaign, a program aimed at maintaining a higher level of cleanliness, where all stakeholders feel a sense of ownership of litter abatement and sanitation in the French Quarter. […]
Community rallies behind efforts to cut down on graffiti in the French Quarter
“The historic Vieux Carre is the engine of New Orleans’ tourism. So any negative experience like vandalism, which graffiti is vandalism, it brings the visitor experience down,” said Mamie Gasperecz of the French Quarter Management District. Fox 8 WVUE – By David Jones Published: Jul. 6, 2022 at 10:36 PM CDT NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – […]