New Orleans' efforts to reduce Mardi Gras waste and reuse beads and throws have been ongoing for decades and involve a complicated web of community groups, leaders and businesses. Carnival lasts ...

Mardi Gras throws can litter streets or crowd paradegoers' homes after Carnival season. Here's how to recycle your beads, thanks to the help of several local organizations.

Cheap plastic beads often end up in landfills and can clog up the city’s 100-year-old drainage system. That’s led to more calls to ditch them altogether.

Other throws, such as the popular Mardi Gras bead bags — which were already taxed — will now be charged tariffs as high as 102%, he estimated.

Chris Russell sorts beads Friday, January 29, 2021, at LARC's Beads-N-More, a recycled bead store that employs individuals with developmental disabilities, on the grounds of Acadian Village in ...

Jerrilyn Miller shows her bedazzled t-shirt as she and Krewe Bon Appetit members work on making specialty throws for Friday’s parade. Photo made Monday, Feb. 24, 2025 Kim Brent/Beaumont Enterprise ...