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Episode: Biodegradable beads for sustainable carnival celebrations
Description: The famous New Orleans Mardi Gras sees revelers come from far and wide to watch the lavish parades roll through the historic US city.
In the narrow streets of the old French Quarter, raucous and continuous street parties take over. Traditionally, items like plastic beads are thrown from the parade floats to the watching crowds.
Once made of glass and cherished by parade spectators who were lucky enough to catch them, today cheap plastic bead necklaces from overseas are tossed from floats by the handful. Spectators sometimes pile dozens around their necks, but many are trashed or left on the...