As Mardi Gras festivities wind down, the colorful beads that often come with the celebrations can pile up, leaving many ...

With the sun rising, people stumbled out of bars and saluted the trash collectors. A drunken couple shrieked and leaped onto ...

Piles of Mardi Gras detritus accumulated from Mardi Gras ... and nicknamed “toothbrushes” scrub the asphalt, targeting beads. Bulldozers plow into the piles and dump them into trucks capable ...