Nopales are more than just a delicious food. For years, scientists have been using the food staple to create eco-friendly ...

At the heart of this innovation are polystyrene (PS) nanospheres, each just 400 nanometers wide—about 250 times thinner than ...

Cheap plastic beads often end up in landfills and can clog up the city’s 100-year-old drainage system. That’s led to more calls to ditch them altogether.

Plastic beads used as Carnival throws entered the market in the early 1950s in New Orleans, in competition with glass beads from Czechoslovakia, Japan and elsewhere.

Some Mardi Gras parade planners ban plastic beads to cut back on waste Mardi Gras can make a lot of trash, adding up to millions of pounds each year. Now, some parades in New Orleans are cutting ...

A growing number of krewes are ditching the cheap plastic beads imported from China for sustainable or recycled goods. Rex, the city’s longest-running krewe that still parades (since 1872 ...

Now, in a bid to address rising energy demand, researchers have come up with an unconventional way to produce electricity by using tiny plastic beads.

Tens of millions of pounds of Chinese-made plastic beads are imported to the Gulf Coast for Mardi Gras annually, a cheap but vast loot of plastic throws that only increases in volume each year.

With these plastic beads on the ground along every parade route, it is no wonder that flooding is increasingly becoming problematic in our below-sea-level city.

Plastic beads used as Carnival throws entered the market in the early 1950s in New Orleans, in competition with glass beads from Czechoslovakia, Japan and elsewhere.