Greening Mardi Gras: Recycling Effort Targets Parade Trash
By Associated Press
Feb 19, 2018 3:00 PM ET
Originally posted on The Statesman
NEW ORLEANS -- Mardi Gras produces days of merriment, indulgence, a few hangovers — and a lot of garbage. Once the parades have passed and the beads have been thrown, the cleanup begins.
This year two New Orleans organizations aimed to change things with a pilot recycling project to collect cans, plastic bottles and that ubiquitous Mardi Gras accessory dangling from fences, trees and balconies: beads.