This year, paradegoers who recycle at stations along the route can be entered to win prizes from local businesses. Here's everything to know about bead recycling in the New Orleans metro.

If you've ever been to a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans ... Recycle Dat has also partnered with the French Quarter Management District to put bead and throw collection bins in 15 hotels for ...

Tractors bearing bristles and nicknamed “toothbrushes” scrub the asphalt, targeting beads. Bulldozers ... with cleaning up with the French Quarter in New Orleans, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 ...

The promise from authorities for more security threatened to conflict with the city’s anything-goes sensibilities, and some changes were evident.

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Two New Orleans sanitation contractors are ready to get back to work in the French Quarter, but some people, including some city council members, would rather keep the ...

The traditional throwing of beads will not be affected by the new security ... to New Orleans to enhance security in the Central Business District, on local highways and in the French Quarter.

Despite some schedule changes and cancellations due to weather concerns, people still took over the streets for the parades in New Orleans on ... especially in the French Quarter.

(AP Photo/Jack Brook) Waste from Mardi Gras awaiting collection in the French Quarter of New Orleans, on Ash Wednesday ... targeting beads. Bulldozers plow into the piles and dump them into ...