NEW ORLEANS, La. — It’s carnival season in New Orleans with weeks of parades, all leading up to one day: Mardi Gras. Part of the parade appeal includes all the throws you can catch, like beads, from ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)— As parades ramp up this week, you may want to pay extra attention to some very special beads you can catch. An LSU professor invented a new kind of Mardi Gras bead that’s made out ...

Lucky spectators at the 2022 Freret or Tucks parades could catch one of the rarest Carnival throws ever. At long last, biodegradable beads, containing plastic made from algae in an LSU laboratory, are ...

Mardi Gras beads dangling from tree limbs are a lovely sight, but the broken ones strewed about the asphalt and grass are not as picturesque. To combat the leftover Mardi Gras litter, LSU's Department ...

Noble Plastics in St. Landry parish has teamed up with LSU to create a new biodegradable bead. They're hoping to reduce the negative effects ordinary plastic beads have on the ecosystem and ...