NEW ORLEANS – Mardi Gras has officially made its return to New Orleans this week with celebrations that leave behind tons of waste every year. While the city's sanitation department will be focusing ...

Fat Tuesday is the biggest day of the year for the Carnival Season and every year hundreds of thousands of people travel to the Big Easy to line the streets and catch beads thrown from the floats.

If you've ever been to a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, then you're probably familiar with the sea of unwanted beads, flashing toys and plastic packaging left in the wake of the last float to pass ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It’s a beloved century-old Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders on lavish floats fling strings of colorful beads or other trinkets to parade watchers clamoring ...

The Carnival season has come to a close, and it's time to decide what to do with your collection of magnificent throws. If you're not inclined to keep your beads in a corner of your garage to collect ...

NEW ORLEANS — It's a beloved century-old Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders on lavish floats fling strings of colorful beads or other trinkets to parade watchers clamoring with ...

New Orleans city leaders are asking people to only throw beads along the designated parade routes during the remaining days of the carnival season. They’re asking people not to throw beads or drop ...

Arc of Greater New Orleans has opened its Mardi Gras Bead Store for the 2022 season. The store offers throws, accessories, trinkets and more to parade riders and Krewe of House Floats participants. It ...

Excess throws, trash and beads line the street Saturday on St. Charles Avenue after the Endymion Parade. Photo by Lance Traweek. It’s a beloved century-old Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — ...

NEW ORLEANS – Mardi Gras has officially made its return to New Orleans this week with celebrations that leave behind tons of waste every year. In 2018, for example, the city reported collecting nearly ...