The scenic seaside city of Laguna Beach, California, is weighing a plan to ban the sale and public use of balloons
Environmental advocates are celebrating in Laguna Beach — but it won't be with balloons.
“This is the beginning,” said Chad Nelsen, chief executive of the nonprofit environmental organization Surfrider Foundation, adding that he sees momentum to weed out balloons that tangle with turtles and sea lions much like he did with the effort to phase out single-use plastic bags. “We’re chipping away at all these things we find and trying to clean up the ocean one item at a time.”
Treb Heining, who began selling balloons at Disneyland when he was 15 years old and now, more than 50 years later, works internationally in the balloon industry, said balloons bring happiness to the world. “They’re doing anything they can to make balloons into this evil, horrible thing. And they’re not,” he said.
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