"Our riders loved it because the spectators don't value this anymore," Freret co-founder Greg Rhoades told the Associated ...

For the 2025 Mardi Gras season, Ground Krewe managed to sell $1 million of interesting and or environmentally sound "throws." ...

New battery-free electricity source: Tiny plastic beads By Michael Franco March 16, 2025 These beads, used for illustrative purposes, are much bigger than the nanobeads in the study, which measure ...

The beads are increasingly viewed as a problem, but a Mardi Gras without beads also seems unfathomable. That is why it was a ...

A popular New Orleans Carnival krewe will no longer be throwing plastic beads. Starting Carnival 2025, the Krewe of Freret announced that they will no longer throw plastic beads in an effort to have ...

'Throw me somethin’ mister' has long been a Carnival-time mantra in New Orleans, as parade-goers vie for glinting plastic necklaces tossed from passing floats. But in recent years there’s also been ...

Mardi Gras can make a lot of trash, adding up to millions of pounds each year. Now, some parades in New Orleans are cutting down on their environmental footprint by banning plastic beads. Some Mardi ...

HUMBLE, Texas (KTRK) -- In the aftermath of a large industrial fire at a plastics facility, there are now environmental concerns. Fire officials in Humble estimate tens of thousands of tiny plastic ...

Antonio Segovia Gomez was last seen at noon on Tuesday, Feb. 18, in the 4800 block of Vogesite Path. NEW ORLEANS – It’s a beloved century-old Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders ...

Workers lay asphalt with New Village Initiative's plastic beads on an Interstate 80 bypass lane near DeSoto, Iowa, west of Des Moines. The company transforms waste plastics into tiny beads used to ...