LAFAYETTE, La. — As Mardi Gras festivities wind down, the colorful beads that often come with the celebrations can pile up, leaving many wondering what to do with the excess. The Arc of Acadiana ...

Get your beads and King Cakes out ... take place in coastal towns near the Louisiana border. For instance, Beaumont’s annual Mardi Gras Southeast Texas festival, which ran from Feb. 28 to ...

“While best known for parties, costumes and beads, Mardi Gras has religious origins in the Catholic calendar as well as in pre-Christian pagan celebrations,” HuffPost tells us ...

Known for its spectacular parades, floats, marching bands, throws, and King cake, Mardi Gras is the biggest celebration ... are Japanese mercury glass beads, made during World War II, and the ...

Snowmass Village is bringing back its beloved Mardi Gras celebration for the 43rd year, filling Fat Tuesday with music, revelry, and plenty of beads on March 4, according to a press release. The ...

If you've ever been to a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, then you're probably familiar with the sea of unwanted beads, flashing toys and plastic packaging left in the wake of the last float to ...

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 the city’s 100-year-old drainage system.

While Pensacola’s Mardi Gras celebrations date back to 1874, 1900 was the year it found its footing Today, the celebration includes more than 100 krewes and draws more than 100,000 visitors ...

For the sister cities known as “Los Dos Laredos,” the ceremony is a highlight of nearly two months of uber-patriotic celebration, a sort of border Mardi Gras featuring lavish society galas and ...

However, the most notable celebrations take place in coastal towns near the Louisiana border. For example, Beaumont’s annual Mardi Gras Southeast Texas festival, happening Feb. 28 to March 2 ...

People often ask me why I love Mardi Gras so much. They want to know why my husband and I spend hundreds of dollars on trinkets and plastic beads to throw off a float into the hands of people we ...

Now, if you are on a budget or you want to go green with your throws, you could always go with recycled beads from LARC’s Mardi Gras Beads-N-More store. LARC provides services to individuals ...