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New Orleans' efforts to reduce Mardi Gras waste and reuse beads and throws have been ongoing for decades and involve a complicated web of community groups, leaders and businesses. Carnival lasts Anna Nguyen, with the city's Office of Resilience and Sustainability, says waste like beads, plastic, and glass bottles can be recycled. She says there are ways to have a more sustainable Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras Beads. If you’re real crafty, you can upcycle the beads into future costumes and wreaths. If crafting isn’t your game, then you need to donate them to ArcGNO. ArcGNO takes your unwanted Mardi Gras throws and turns them into jobs. They employ people with intellectual disabilities to sort through, repackage, and resell your For the third year in a row, the New Orleans Office of Resilience and Sustainability is working hard to make Mardi Gras greener and more sustainable with their “Recycle Dat” program. Mardi Gras can make a lot of trash, adding up to millions of pounds each year. Now, some parades in New Orleans are cutting down on their environmental footprint by banning plastic beads. The current cost of 50 cents per strand of beads is a major improvement over earlier iterations and makes these biodegradable beads far more competitive with traditional Mardi Gras beads. And the team believes the costs can go even lower. Facilitating do-it-yourself printing But about those beads -- specifically, the 25 million pounds of the plastic, made-in-China necklaces -- left over and/or unceremoniously littered after those mammary gland-heavy Mardi Gras parades and parties. Mardi Gras beads cannot be collected and recycled in the same manner as, let’s say, that big bottle of water you chugged the morning Now that the Mardi Gras parades have ended for the year, Audubon Nature Institute has a way for parade-goers to responsibly recycle all those beads they caught during Carnival season. Mardi Gras bead collection boxes are located at the front gate at Audubon Zoo and at the Audubon Louisiana Nature Center for the public to drop off beads for recyc Here's where you can recycle Mardi Gras beads in New Orleans, Jefferson Parish and beyond Mardi Gras produces tons of garbage — up to 2.6 million pounds each year in New Orleans alone, from You can also donate beads to The Arc of Greater New Orleans year-round. The organization creates jobs for adults with developmental disabilities and sells resorted and repackaged beads for reuse. See their drop-off locations. The bottom line: The annual tradition is incredibly wasteful, but every greener option makes a little difference. mardi gras Retail Store. SHOP NOW. Your one-stop-shop for all your carnival needs! Store Hours Monday - Friday 9am - 3pm. SHOP NOW. Paragon Industries. BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - This Mardi Gras season, a ton of beads will be tossed. While it is all a part of the fun, multiple groups are asking community members to recycle unwanted beads. The Mississippi Aquarium is collecting beads that will be repurposed and resold. I don’t reside in “The Big Easy,” but I do live in “The Big Guava,” a.k.a. Tampa, Florida. We don’t have the Mardi Gras parade, but we do host an annual pirate festival called Gasparilla — which celebrates the arrival of a mythical pirate named Jose Gaspar who comes into town every year with his band of buccaneers to invade the city. Jesuit will be collecting Mardi Gras beads to donate to St. Michael School for recycling purposes. The adult clients at the Joy Activity Center at St. Michael’s are responsible for sorting the beads, preparing them for resale. Donations can be Mardi Gras throws can litter streets or crowd paradegoers' homes after Carnival season. Here's how to recycle your beads, thanks to the help of several local organizations. Mardi Gras beads are made of a petroleum-based plastic, which can have negative effects on a community’s infrastructure and the environment! Each year, a large number of beads end up in habitats and waterways and the individual pellets of broken beads can appear as food to fish and birds. There are several organizations that accept Mardi Gras Beads to be sorted by individuals with intellectual disabilities and then re-sold to krewe members for next year’s parades. They’ve got drop off spots all around the area where your beads can be recycled. Here’s a list! Mardi Gras Bead Recycling on the Northshore. STARC of Louisiana, Inc. Recycle Dat, the push to make Mardi Gras greener, returns after diverting 10 tons of waste from New Orleans landfills in 2024. - February 19, 2025 -For Immediate Release Preparing For A Cleaner, Greener Mardi GrasMobile, Ala. —?Carnival Season Brings Thousands Of Revelers Downtown To Enjoy Parades, Balls, And Other Festivities. It Also Brings Thousands Of Pounds Of Trash, Most Of Which Ends Up On Our Streets And Sidewalks, And Far Too Much Of Which Enters The Storm Drains And Eventually Our Waterways. A Few Years BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - This Mardi Gras season, a ton of beads will be tossed. While it is all a part of the fun, multiple groups are asking community members to recycle unwanted beads. The
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