A successful Mardi Gras used to be measured by how much waste it produced. Now, the world's largest free festival is trying to clean up.

Much of Mardi Gras’ environmental impact comes from plastic waste associated with float throws.

City officials, nonprofits and a handful of Carnival krewes are teaming up to put a dent in that enormously wasteful problem.

We’ve allowed our treasured tradition to morph into a bacchanal of plastic beads and throws produced from fossil fuels…

Every single parade-goer can help reduce the trash that swallows New Orleans every Mardi Gras season…

Study calls for restrictions on use of hazardous recycled content in products…

One writers take on how Mardi Gras and it’s waste is out of step with the times..

New ordinances concerning unopened plastic bead bags and disposal of plastic wrapping. Who’s coming up with such Grounded ideas?

Article summarizing the history and various forms of Carnival with a focus on New Orleans Mardi Gras.

‘Good news’? Where does the material in 160 shipping containers each field with 40,000 pounds of beads end up?

Article covering the unknown economic impact of Mardi Gras in Mobile & New Orleans.

Revelers go home with plastic jewels but leave the streets covered with discards and debris.

New Orleans celebrated Mardi Gras for decades before paraders rewarded their admiring throngs by hurling objects at them.

No bacchanal should leave that much bad juju behind.

Scanning for colorful beads and other Mardi Gras throws that make their way into the Mississippi River.

93,000 pounds in just 5 blocks along the uptown parade route.

Mardi Gras is a city-hosted event that charges krewes a flat fee established by ordinance.

The cleanup of Mardi Gras is no easy task, and often lasts for days after the celebrations come to an end.

The City of New Orleans, overwhelmed by the sheer amount of trash generated from the parades, doesn’t have a recycling program for them.