Mardi Gras beads dangling from tree limbs are a lovely sight, but the broken ones strewed about the asphalt and grass are not as picturesque. To combat the leftover Mardi Gras litter, LSU's Department ...

A biological sciences professor at LSU is working to reduce the cost of his formula for biodegradable Mardi Gras beads. Professor Naohiro Kato has patent applications pending on various formulations ...

BATON ROUGE—Five hundred strands of biodegradable Mardi Gras beads— formulated at LSU and made in Louisiana—will be handed out along parade routes in New Orleans this year as concern over the tens of ...

KAWANISHI-CITY, Japan, April 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Environmental problems such as global warming, extreme weather, natural resource depletion, water shortage and plastic pollution are getting ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. — It’s carnival season in New Orleans with weeks of parades, all leading up to one day: Mardi Gras. Part of the parade appeal includes all the throws you can catch, like beads, from ...

Noble Plastics in St. Landry parish has teamed up with LSU to create a new biodegradable bead. They're hoping to reduce the negative effects ordinary plastic beads have on the ecosystem and ...

A professor at LSU working on an environmentally friendly option to plastic Carnival beads has run into his biggest challenge: finding an affordable way to make them. Naohiro Kato of the Department of ...

Lucky spectators at the 2022 Freret or Tucks parades could catch one of the rarest Carnival throws ever. At long last, biodegradable beads, containing plastic made from algae in an LSU laboratory, are ...

WEBVTT KELSEY: IT IS A NORMAL SITE TOTHOSE OF US IN THE BIG EASY.MARDI GRAS BEADS HANGING INTREES, WRAPPED AROUND TREETRUNKS ON THE STREETS AND UNDERVIEWING STANDS AFTER PARADES .>> SOME PEOPLE TRY TO ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - An LSU researcher is refining a process to make biodegradable beads that could keep tens of thousands of pounds of plastic beads from entering the environment each year.