Volunteers, along with Southern Water's Eastbourne Wastewater Treatment Works, worked to remove the beads as quickly and ...

A popular New Orleans Carnival krewe will no longer be throwing plastic beads. Starting Carnival 2025, the Krewe of Freret announced that they will no longer throw plastic beads in an effort to have ...

New research finds thousands of pounds of hazardous chemicals in plastic beaded products, including beaded holiday garlands and Mardi Gras beads. The results were posted Thursday on the consumer ...

'Throw me somethin’ mister' has long been a Carnival-time mantra in New Orleans, as parade-goers vie for glinting plastic necklaces tossed from passing floats. But in recent years there’s also been ...

HUMBLE, Texas (KTRK) -- In the aftermath of a large industrial fire at a plastics facility, there are now environmental concerns. Fire officials in Humble estimate tens of thousands of tiny plastic ...

A tiny zine handed out during this year's 'tit Rəx parade." It’s Mardi Gras season and the streets are filling up with parade-goers — and disposable plastic. Every year, millions of pounds of plastic ...

A recent spill of bio-beads – small plastic pellets used by some wastewater treatment facilities since the 1990s – has brought renewed attention to a problem that has been quietly accumulating in ...

Floating drifts of bead-sized white pieces of plastic washed up on the Sullivan's Island beach on Thursday, mostly along a private seawall near Station 12. The foamed plastic were light enough to ...

Patience is a virtue, even in crafting. This week's craft required a little bit of it, and that patience surely paid off. After several attempts at these fun suncatchers, I was able to get a better ...

A new ingredient that has been cropping up in products ranging from toothpaste to facial cleansers —polyethylene microbeads — has been causing a stir ever since dental hygienists noticed the tiny blue ...