"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." ...

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 ...

More and more parades in New Orleans now feature glass beads instead of plastic ones during Mardi Gras.

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.

Mardi Gras makes changes to its famous beads a year after bringing in ban - Beads are back, but not the cheap plastic ones ...

Mardi Gras is amid a sustainable transformation, with biodegradable beads replacing plastic ones due to environmental concerns. The Krewe of Freret has banned plastic beads, opting for biodegradable ...

Throwing and catching gold, green, and purple beads is a cherished Mardi Gras tradition, but as it turns out, these petroleum-based plastic beads have a heavy impact ...

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 ...

Plastic beads remain a staple at most big Carnival parades, but there’s a growing number of New Orleans krewes that want to ban them due to environmental concerns. Producer Matt Bloom went to the ...

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 ...