Balloons Blow

[Emit]

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Bird entangled in a bouquet of latex balloons & ribbon. Photo: Ocean Conservancy


Osprey chick next to ribbons - The Friends of Island Beach State Park


Osprey with ribbon around its neck - The Friends of Island Beach State Park

About.

"Like" to promise never to let balloons go. www.BalloonsBlow.org was created to bring awareness & educate others of the issue of balloons as litter & their effects on wildlife & the environment.

Mission
Balloons Blow was created to spread awareness & educate others about balloons as litter and their harmful effects on wildlife and the environment. If people know what happens, then hopefully they will never let balloons go or ever organize or participate in a balloon release.

Description
www.BalloonsBlow.org is a website created to spread awareness about balloons as litter and their effects on wildlife and the environment. "Like" to promise to never let them go. Check out our website to find alternatives and learn more about their effects, the depletion of helium, and what really happens to balloons that are released.

General Information
Balloons Blow…Don’t Let Them Go! That’s the message we’re trying to get out. When we first started cleaning Florida's beaches over 17 years ago with our parents, we would never find balloons. As the years went on we would find a few more here & there. Now, both in our early 20’s, we continue our weekly beach cleanups & every year we find more and more balloons. Of course there is much more plastic...

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[NightWatcher]

1. I wont even tell you how they look inside the guts of a dead sea turtle

It looks like food to sea turtles, dolphins, birds and others and it chokes their guts. Balloons are stupid, especially when they only serve the purpose of being released into the sky to fly away and litter some far away place.

Just dont do it

[MH1]

2. I'm glad people are waking up.

I remember participating in those balloon releases when I was a child. At some point in my teens I realized it wasn't a good idea and felt bad about ever doing it ... but of course we can't blame the 8 year olds.

[Sirveri]

5. My school did that once. They were more concerned about aircraft than anything else.

It's kinda fun watching stuff go up into the sky, but there is more to life than pretty sights, especially when they destroy other pretty sights.

[xtraxritical]

3. It's not just balloons it's anything plastic blows!

[CrispyQ]

4. Humans blow.

So much for our superior intelligence.

I hate my species. It won't be soon enough until we're gone.

[cbayer]

6. When we make crossings, we see balloons more often than any other

kind of trash on the water.

I think it's mostly from boats who put out balloons, which inevitably get blown off when they are underway.

[datasuspect]

7. neun und neunzig luftballons

immer choken die seabeasties!