Littering — it’s a Buenos Aires tradition. On the last work day of the year employees downtown toss the pages of the previous year’s agenda out their office windows, so that the pages fall like summer snowflakes onto the streets.

Buenos Aires’ downtown streets are covered with agenda pages of the previous year.

The last workday before the New Year is a day when hardly anyone works — minus the city’s cartoneros (garbage pickers) and city street sweepers.