Laguna Beach in California is banning the sale and public use of balloons to curtail the risk of devastating wildfires and eliminate a major source of trash.
The move in the community of 23,000 people 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles comes as several California beach cities have limited balloons and the state enacted a law to regulate the types made of foil.
Environmental advocates are taking aim at balloons, arguing they’re a preventable cause of coastal pollution that threatens animals and seabirds.
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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