mardi gras beads

With Mardi Gras comes lots of beads, if you're lucky. The issue then becomes what to do with all of those beads you and your family caught.

Mardi Gras is a holiday rich in tradition. Everything about Mardi Gras represents something. What about beads? Why do we fight over them throw them from floats, and what do Mardi Gras beads represent?

These signs revelers hold up at Mardi Gras parades score them the "best" beads.

The reverse parade is presented by RISE Chiropractic.

It's way past time that we start making Mardi Gras more sustainable and environmentally friendly.

Remember the story this past Mardi Gras about literally tons of beads clogging drains? That could soon be a thing of the past.

You can help LARC provide jobs and opportunities for the developmentally disabled by donating your unwanted Mardi Gras beads for a good cause!

They say love can build and bridge and apparently so can Mardi Gras beads. Check out this fantastic feat of Mardi Gras Engineering.

Officials in New Orleans say 93,000 pounds of busted beads were discovered in drains in a five-block area of St. Charles Street.

There is something about this time of year that makes even the easiest going Louisiana resident a little antsy.

Baton Rouge man Marcus Ciko, also known as the "Bead Man", has an idea that could revolutionize the way we Mardi Gras.

If you are looking for Mardi Gras beads, make sure you stop by LARC's Mardi Gras Beads - N - More, to support programs for folks who have developmental and intellectual disabilities.

Today at the Cajundome, Monster Jam truck Fatal Attraction will be parked outside from 5:30pm-7:00pm to be "stuffed" with Mardi Gras beads. All bead donations collected will be donated to LARC as part of their Beads-n-More Enterprises which creates jobs and opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities.

It seems that the Mardi Gras beads that are imported from China might contain toxic materials. These unwanted materials such as lead,bromine, chlorine, cadmium, arsenic, tin, phthalates and mercury have been found in beads shipped in from China.