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.

Today, plastic microbeads – defined as manufactured spheres no bigger than one millimetre – are common in everything from paint-strippers to toothpaste, body wash, detergent, perfume, and ...

Remember plastic Perler beads from when you were a kid? Those brightly colored macaroni-shaped beads that you align on a little pegboard and then fuse together using an iron? They're Wisconsin ...

Microbeads are pieces of plastic, usually spherical in shape, ... Thanks to rain and runoff, these beads can still enter the water supply.

Tiny plastic beads from beauty products are showing up in North America's Great Lakes, and an environmental group is calling upon companies to stop using the plastic particles.

Every day, 8 trillion microbeads are being emitted into aquatic habitats in the U.S. And that's only 1 percent of the total. Every day, 8 trillion microbeads are being emitted into aquatic ...

Tiny plastic beads injected into the arm could banish the agony of tennis elbow. Up to two million people in Britain at any one time have tennis elbow, which is triggered by any repetitive arm ...

Mardi Gras floods New Orleans in plastic beads. ... form medical devices, and of course, to shape into a trillion colorful party novelties that drunk tourists would drop in the French Quarter.