It is Carnival season in New Orleans. That means gazillions of green, gold and purple Mardi Gras beads. Once made of glass and cherished by parade spectators who were lucky enough to catch them, today ...

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NEW ORLEANS -- It is Carnival season in New Orleans. That means gazillions of green, gold and purple Mardi Gras beads. Once made of glass and cherished by parade spectators who were lucky enough to ...

Every Saturday at 8 a.m., no matter the weather, Chris Pomfret sets up a dozen or so big garbage cans outside his church in Algiers Point on New Orleans’ west bank. Glass clinks and clatters as ...

Mardi Gras in New Orleans can generate more than 1,000 tons of trash every year. A coalition of nonprofit groups, city officials and scientists has a plan to clean it up. By Jackie Delamatre See more ...

It's Mardi Gras season in New Orleans, when paradegoers look forward to catching things like beads. Now, often these beads are made of plastic. But plastic beads can be toxic and bad for the ...

We've loved our plastic Mardi Gras beads for a long time. We’ve been catching them since we were kids. But adult problems have cropped up. Between clogged storm drains and ecological concerns, some of ...