The destructive life of a Mardi Gras bead Many revelers are either unaware – or refuse to admit – that there’s a problem that needs to be dealt with

Vuz Millions of these plastic Mardi Gras beads end up in New Orleans' landfills every year. Now a company wants to do something about it.

(N)SFW: How to Get Mardi Gras Beads Struck out on Bourbon Street this Fat Tuesday? Just follow these simple -- but morally questionable -- steps to get complete strangers to throw Mardi Gras beads at you.

Vintage Mardi Gras Madness Around the World In honor of Fat Tuesday, here's a look back at the masks, beads, and elaborate costumes of Mardi Gras festivities past around the world.

Mardi Gras in New Orleans Put on your mask and start begging for beads -- it's time for Mardi Gras. Take a look at how New Orleans and hundreds of people celebrate this festive occasion every year.

See Celebratory Mardi Gras Beauty Looks From Around the World When you think of Mardi Gras, beads, bourbon, and parades may come to mind, but the holiday is a big deal in lots of places oceans away from New Orleans. The lead-up to Mardi Gras is known as carnival, so the worldwide celebrations from Rio de Janeir Read more ... o, Brazil, to Venice, Italy, are actually all part…

Mardi Gras in New Orleans: a day of parades, partying NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Revelers in glitzy costumes filled the streets of New Orleans on Tuesday for the annual Mardi Gras bash, opening a day of partying, parades and good-natured jostling for beads and trinkets tossed from…

How To Throw The Best Mardi Gras Party, Ever With its parties and parades, its colored beads and feathers, its glitter and glitz and gold, Mardi Gras isn't a celebration known for subtlety. If there were ever an occasion to go all out, it seems Mardi Gras — which has a rowdy history that date Read more ... s back thousands of years — would be the

Forget Beads: Cajun Mardi Gras Means A Grand, Drunken Chicken Chase Courir de Mardi Gras is an old tradition in rural Louisiana. From early morning on, costumed revelers go house to house, drinking, singing and collecting ingredients for a big ole pot of gumbo.

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