This New Orleans fifth grader shows us how to stop the ‘Mardi Gras pollution’ of toxic beads and the effect it has on our environment.

Alex Schaefer, a fifth grader at Gretna Number 2 Academy for Advanced Studies, drew this amazing dioramic for a school project. Let’s work to make Mardi Gras fun, safe, and green!

Read more about Mardi Gras waste and the toxicity of Mardi Gras beads in our BEad aWARE article.

For bead alternatives and where to recycle.