Greening Mardi Gras: Environmentalists push alternatives to plastic Carnival beads in New Orleans
by Kevin McGill
Feb 11, 2024
2 minutes
It’s a beloved century-old Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders on lavish floats fling strings of colorful beads or other trinkets to parade watchers clamoring with outstretched arms.
It's all in good fun but it's also a bit of a “plastics disaster,” says Judith Enck, a former Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator and president of the advocacy group Beyond Plastics.
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