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Recycle Dat! mobilizes hundreds of volunteers, both locals and visitors, to collect as much as 10,000 pounds of cans left by revelers along the city’s streets. 2025. Close. Mardi Gras beads Mardi Gras Bead Recycling Audubon Zoo January 16, 2025 Audubon Nature Institute is committed to keeping Mardi Gras beads out of landfills and away from nature. Bring your Mardi Gras beads to be recycled responsibly at the Front Entrance of Audubon Zoo. New Orleans urges Mardi Gras parade-goers to recycle beads and throws instead of trashing them. Find drop-off sites for sustainable celebrations. Published: 5:52 PM CST February 26, 2025 This interactive mega-recycling station offers an exclusive look at how Mardi Gras waste—beads, cans, and glass—is being sorted and diverted from landfills in real time. Media will have access to program organizers and special guests to discuss the impact of Mardi Gras recycling efforts so far. 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. 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 February 1 – March 15, 2025 Let the good times roll and then roll right to Mississippi Aquarium to recycle those unused and unwanted beads! We celebrate all season long by lighting up the iconic sails Purple, Green, and Gold AND recycling Mardi Gras beads! An initiative to clean beads and other debris off the streets is taking shape after local Mardi Gras parades. By Jason Gregory Published : Feb. 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM CST With the help of the Recycle Dat Coalition partners, the City recycled 1,475 pounds of aluminum, 1,500 pounds of glass, and 11,535 pounds of Mardi Gras beads and throws during the 2023 Carnival Season. Help us by doing your part to make Mardi Gras more sustainable. For more information about Recycle Dat 2025 initiatives, visit https 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. - 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 Mississippi Aquarium is collecting beads that will be repurposed and resold. Recycle Dat, the push to make Mardi Gras greener, returns after diverting 10 tons of waste from New Orleans landfills in 2024. Posted February 26, 2025 / Last updated February 26, 2025 Print Email Share Jesuit will be collecting Mardi Gras beads to donate to St. Michael School for recycling purposes. Here's where to recycle Mardi Gras beads and throws in New Orleans on the route and beyond 2025 Feb 24, 2025 Updated Feb 24, 2025; 2 min to read. Facebook; Twitter; WhatsApp; SMS; The interactive mega-recycling station will provide the chance for the public to see the impact of recycling Mardi Gras throws, bottles and cans. This station will be open during the same times as the route recycling hours ~ 10 a.m. – 7 p.m., on the two Saturdays and Sundays before Mardi Gras. A rendering of the site is available here. Leslie Heindel & Heather Shields, Realtors // Crescent City Living LLC // 3205 Orleans Ave. New Orleans, LA 70119 O: 504-327-5303 C: 504-975-4252 // email us Licensed by LA Real Estate Commission GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - The Mississippi Aquarium has partnered with organizations across South Mississippi to collect and recycle beads this Mardi Gras season.. Unwanted throws can be dropped off 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. Mardi Gras Season is in full swing but after the fun is done, bring those beads and unwanted throws to Mississippi Aquarium for recycling! Over the years, Mississippi Aquarium has collected tens of thousands of pounds of beads preventing them from entering ecosystems and harming wildlife.
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