Mardi Gras Beads-n-More is located at 303 New Hope Road in Lafayette. LARC collects, sorts, packages and resells Mardi Gras beads, keeping those beads in circulation and out of the trash.

One strand of Mardi Gras beads can cost less than 25 cents. Meanwhile, throws like lab-created biodegradable beads and the flowers that the Krewe of Iris use now cost over twice as much. 1 of 3 ...

Biodegradable Mardi Gras beads might be rarest throw of 2022 - or ever Research, development made beads cost “a ridiculous amount,” more than $50 per strand. BY DOUG MACCASH | Staff writer.

Mardi Gras Beads-n-More. This bead store is a part of LARC's enterprise job program that recycles and cleans beads to be used again. They also sell some popular throws like stuffed animals and ...

Beads, beads everywhere. In 1921, The Rex organization required all of its riders to toss throws to the throngs, giving rise to that Carnival staple, the one thing you can be guaranteed to catch ...

Anna Nguyen, with the city's Office of Resilience and Sustainability, says waste like beads, plastic, and glass bottles can be recycled. She says there are ways to have a more sustainable Mardi Gras.

How much do all those beads and throws cost? ... Mardi Gras Beads & More Store. 200 Greenleaf Drive (337) 981-8484. Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

As the good times roll at Mardi Gras, float by float, the throws filter through the crowd to the roads and sidewalks below—beads, trinkets, and Moon Pies—covering the ground in a layer of ...

With over 20 different parades, Mardi Gras Galveston fun starts on Friday, February 21 and runs to Fat Tuesday, March 4, 2025. In total, over 3 million beads will be thrown to paradegoers along ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — “Throw me some beads, mister,” is a common request that anyone who goes to Mardi Gras on the Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama Gulf Coast will hear.

Mardi Gras can make a lot of trash, adding up to millions of pounds each year. Now, some parades in New Orleans are cutting down on their environmental footprint by banning plastic beads.

Throws, as the parade trinkets are known, date back to the late 1800s, when candy, peanuts and sweets were tossed from floats, Mr. Hardy said.