A tiny zine handed out during this year's 'tit Rəx parade." It’s Mardi Gras season and the streets are filling up with parade-goers — and disposable plastic. Every year, millions of pounds of plastic ...

New research finds thousands of pounds of hazardous chemicals in plastic beaded products, including beaded holiday garlands and Mardi Gras beads. The results were posted Thursday on the consumer ...

Tons of waste is scooped up every year after massive Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans, and one item has become more noticeably part of the problem: Plastic beads. In 2018 following all of the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (FOX40.COM) — Dozens of people made their ...

'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 ...

Look out, plastics industry. There's a movement afoot to clean up the Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, and the target is close to your heart. Plastic beads have been a fixture in Mardi Gras parades ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. — It’s carnival season in New Orleans with weeks of parades, all leading up to one day: Mardi Gras. Part of the parade appeal includes all the throws you can catch, like beads, from ...

This week, Illinois became the first state in the country to ban exfoliating plastic beads. Good for Illinois. Plastic microbeads have been running off by the billions into the Great Lakes and the ...

A smiling model glides, mermaidlike, through a lush underwater garden. Undulating ribbons of something resembling kelp rise from the sea floor, and tiny enchanting pearl-like beads bubble up though ...

Microscopic plastic beads used in beauty scrubs and creams could be banned amid fears of a threat to wildlife and human health. The brands involved include Clinique, Johnson & Johnson, L'Occitane, ...