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Feb 11, 2024 · FILE - People vie for beads as the group rolls during the Krewe of Iris Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023. Mardi Gras day this year falls on Feb. 21, 2023. It’s a beloved Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders on lavish floats fling string of beads or other trinkets to parade watchers.
Feb 12, 2024 · Mardi Grad beads in New Orleans are creating an environmental disaster Despite a daily cleanup that leaves the post-parade ... in the early hours of the morning after Mardi Gras, in New Orleans ...
Feb 11, 2024 · Gerald Herbert. FILE - Trash lines the gutter on Bourbon Street, in the early hours of the morning after Mardi Gras, in New Orleans, Feb. 18, 2015.
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Feb 11, 2024 · “These efforts will help green Mardi Gras,” said Christy Leavitt, of the group Oceana, in an email. Enck, who visited New Orleans last year and attended Mardi Gras celebrations, hopes parade organizers will adopt the biodegradable alternatives. “There are great ways to have fun around this wonderful festival,” she said.
Related video above: In 2020, representatives from Arc of New Orleans explained how Mardi Gras beads can be recycled through the organization Carnival season is at its height this weekend.
Feb 11, 2024 · “The waste is becoming a defining characteristic of this event,” said Brett Davis, a New Orleans native who grew up catching beads at Mardi Gras parades. He now heads a nonprofit that works to ...
Feb 13, 2024 · Environmentalists are worried about the huge amount of nonbiodegradable plastic beads that wind up mixed in all the other Mardi Gras trash, sparking a move toward alternative parade favors.
