Hundreds of thousands of plastic beads have washed up on beaches in the Hauraki Gulf. Only half of the plastics businesses ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

The parades begin, and day after day, the beads make their landing, tangling themselves—purple, green, and golden plastic—in often-bare limbs. The streets speak, too. As the good times roll ...

Workers lay asphalt with New Village Initiative's plastic beads on an Interstate 80 bypass lane near DeSoto, Iowa, west of Des Moines. The company transforms waste plastics into tiny beads used to ...

Now, in a bid to address rising energy demand, researchers have come up with an unconventional way to produce electricity by ...

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 ...

Tiny plastic beads injected into the arm could banish the agony of tennis elbow. Up to two million people in Britain at any one time have tennis elbow, which is triggered by any repetitive arm ...