Fat Tuesday is the biggest day of the year for the Carnival Season and every year hundreds of thousands of people travel to the Big Easy to line the streets and catch beads thrown from the floats.

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NEW ORLEANS — It was all hands on deck Monday at ArcGNO's Mardi Gras Recycle Center -- and those hands were as busy as can be, sorting countless strands of colorful beads days before the busy parade ...