HELPING TO CLEAN UP OUR COAST AND COUNTRYSIDE
Back from my holiday and back at work, my spare time is still dedicated to litter picking whenever I can. My first visit to the beach was at Blue Anchor and walking along the shore towards Dunster with my litter picking equipment. As well as the usual pieces of marine litter washed up, I found the remains of four helium filled foil balloons all in a very short distance of each other. Only one of these still had the ribbon attached which is an added danger to wildlife. During my holiday beach cleans, I found plenty of these balloons washed up including some huge number shaped remains lying on the shore. Roy Beal, whose story I wrote about in a previous post, saw plenty of balloons floating around in the sea like jellyfish during his solo kayak challenge from John O'Groats to Land End earlier in the summer.
Last month, the Isle Of Man brought in a law banning the sale of these balloons which have no place in our environment. The UK government also need to impose the same law as soon as possible.
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