During the 2022 Carnival season, 1,150 tons of trash associated with Mardi Gras were sent to the landfill in just 11 days. This year, the City of New Orleans has partnered with various nonprofits to launch a new recycling initiative known as RecycleDat!
Anna Nguyen, Public Engagement Director for NOLA Ready, and Greg Nichols, Deputy Chief Resilience Officer for the New Orleans Office of Resilience & Sustainability, tell us more about creating a more environmentally-friendly Mardi Gras.
'Discarded,' a new podcast from Lemonada Media, explores the way that plastic manufacturing has shaped the lives – and the health – of the residents of Louisiana’s St. James Parish. Podcast host and Emmy-award winning journalist Gloria Riviera tells us more about this new investigative series and the community activists who are featured.
More than 100 years ago, a school was founded near Montgomery, Alabama with the goal of rehabilitating Black children who got in trouble with the law. But the children faced abuse and were sentenced to hard labor. The new podcast 'Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children' digs into this largely untold story. The Gulf States Newsroom’s Bobbi-Jeanne Misick sat down with podcast host Josie Duffy Rice for more.
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