Spotlight on Lead Poisoning: Purpose, Green & Goals

Update: 2020-02-17

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Join the movement for a more sustainable Mardi Gras.

Interview with Alyssa Conti from Purpose Green & Goals on their efforts to make alternatives to plastic beads, and the options for riders and krewes that are interested in a Greener Mardi Gras.

Plastic Mardi Gras beads are a major source of lead poisoning in New Orleans. Find out how to make the Mardi Gras Festivities a little safer for your children and families.

<figcaption id="caption-attachment-757" class="wp-caption-text">King and Queen Poseidon V and Grand Marshal Becky Fos and her husband Neil. The King and Queen threw only beads made by Purpose, Green & Goals, about half wooden and half glass pearls, some of the wood are what’s hanging in front of them.</figcaption></figure>