Volunteers, along with Southern Water's Eastbourne Wastewater Treatment Works, worked to remove the beads as quickly and ...

New research finds thousands of pounds of hazardous chemicals in plastic beaded products, including beaded holiday garlands and Mardi Gras beads. The results were posted Thursday on the consumer ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Krewe of Freret is making a significant change for Carnival season in 2025. The Krewe on Tuesday (Feb. 27) announced a new ban on throwing traditional, plastic, and often ...

'Throw me somethin’ mister' has long been a Carnival-time mantra in New Orleans, as parade-goers vie for glinting plastic necklaces tossed from passing floats. But in recent years there’s also been ...

A tiny zine handed out during this year's 'tit Rəx parade." It’s Mardi Gras season and the streets are filling up with parade-goers — and disposable plastic. Every year, millions of pounds of plastic ...

This week, Illinois became the first state in the country to ban exfoliating plastic beads. Good for Illinois. Plastic microbeads have been running off by the billions into the Great Lakes and the ...

HUMBLE, Texas (KTRK) -- In the aftermath of a large industrial fire at a plastics facility, there are now environmental concerns. Fire officials in Humble estimate tens of thousands of tiny plastic ...

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 ...