The Krewe of Freret is saying "goodbye" to plastic beads. The krewe announced on Tuesday that starting in 2025, it will not allow its members to throw beads during its parade. Krewe officials say ...

Growing concern over the impact of these tiny plastic beads on marine life has convinced the government to act. A full ban on the sale of products containing microbeads will come into force in July.

PureCycle Technologies Inc., after spending years developing a unique purification technology to recycle polypropylene, has broken through with the company's first major commercial sale of resin.

You may remember Perler beads from first or second grade; these small plastic beads are placed into a peg board and then ironed to produce a solid multicolored piece of plastic. Recently ...