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

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

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 ...

“There was people down here for Mardi Gras, but I don’t think the ... scrub the asphalt, targeting beads. Bulldozers plow into the piles and dump them into trucks capable of bearing 40,000 ...

Mardi Gras in New Orleans is bigger than ever — and so is the collection of unwanted throws that are swept away by the city's street cleaners or go on to pile ... filled with beads and clean ...