Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent spill of bio-beads – small plastic pellets used by some wastewater treatment facilities since the 1990s – has brought ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It is Carnival season in New Orleans. That means gazillions of green, gold and purple Mardi Gras beads. The beads are increasingly viewed as a problem, but a Mardi Gras without ...

The Krewe of Freret Mardi Gras has announced it will not permit riders to throw plastic beads in 2025 in “the name of environmental sustainability, community responsibility, and thought leadership,” ...

Calls have been made to end the use of plastic beads in wastewater treatment after a catastrophic spill into the sea.

A recent spill of bio-beads—small plastic pellets used by some wastewater treatment facilities since the 1990s—has brought renewed attention to a problem that has been quietly accumulating in coastal ...

Dr Emily May Stevenson is a director of Beach Guardian CIC. Pennie Lindeque does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this ...