Now, some parades in New Orleans are cutting down on their environmental footprint by banning plastic beads. Some Mardi Gras parades are banning one of their most colorful traditions - tossing out ...

(Photo by Sophia Germer, NOLA.com, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate) Starting next year, riders will no longer be permitted to throw plastic beads. Krewe leaders estimate the change ...

Friends Bonnie Hill (right) and Fran Kruger (left) pose for a photo after catching glass beads at the Krewe of Freret parade on Feb. 22, 2025. Notably, not plastic beads. Freret banned plastic ...

Spectators in flamboyant costumes wriggle their hips, raise their go cups and stretch out their hands to receive a rainfall of plastic beads as float after float rumbles by. Before the crowds ...

After experimenting with a range of materials, the scientists created nano-sized plastic beads made from melamine and formaldehyde. They then discovered that mixing the sizes of the beads was the ...

With these plastic beads on the ground along every parade route, it is no wonder that flooding is increasingly becoming problematic in our below-sea-level city. When glass beads were thrown from ...

Fire officials in Humble estimate tens of thousands of tiny plastic beads were released, with many floating into storm sewer drains. "That's what they use to make the plastic bags," Humble Chief ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a new method to generate electricity using small plastic beads. By ...

The beads are often cheap plastic necklaces that come in a variety of sizes, patterns, and shapes. And they are tossed from floats or walkers in the parade to those enthusiastically cheering from ...

A group of Austrian researchers have found evidence that microplastics - extremely small pieces of plastic beads, fibres, or fragments - accumulate in human faeces. Scientists from the ...