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.

Known for its spectacular parades, floats, marching bands, throws, and King cake, Mardi Gras ... examples of ‘throwing’ in new Orleans are Japanese mercury glass beads, made during World ...

Three parades will roll Thursday night in New Orleans with scores of masked riders on colorful floats. More processions will ...

Recycle Dat has also partnered with the French Quarter Management District to put bead and throw collection bins in 15 hotels for Mardi Gras tourists, who often realize upon packing their bags ...

By Sara Bonisteel They throw lots ... founder of the Mardi Gras Guide, now in its 49th annual edition. The krewe gave out a thousand cookbooks to spectators at four parades during the New Orleans ...

Two Tesla Cybertruck owners experienced a distressing ordeal when their vehicles were attacked and damaged during a Mardi ...

“It's so important, and they're throwing less.” There are ways to recycle the cheap, plastic beads that have become synonymous with Mardi Gras, but many end up in landfills. They also clog up ...

Tesla Cybertrucks were booed along the route of New Orleans' Lundi Gras Orpheus parade, and at least two vehicles suffered cracked windows after beads were thrown at them. Tesla has been contacted for ...

In New Orleans for the Mardi Gras ... One of the earliest surviving examples of ‘throwing’ in new Orleans are Japanese mercury glass beads, made during World War II, and the early 20th ...

New Orleans welcomes millions of visitors during carnival ... because so many of the Mardi Gras traditions started with them – including the tradition of throwing beads – so their use of ...

The rooftop snipers, bomb-sniffing dogs and armored vehicles seen during the Super Bowl will be back in the French Quarter on Fat Tuesday.

when paraders throw tons of beads and other plastic trinkets to crowds that may add up to more than a million people. During the 2024 Mardi Gras season, more than 11,000 pounds of recyclable ...