Litter continues to be a blight on the region's wildlife. In an incident in February this year, which was reported to Cuan ...

The Environment Ministry has launched a public consultation on proposed regulations that would ban the release of plastic ...

And for the first time, balloon and lantern releases are banned. “What goes up comes down. A lot of people do it as an homage and honor to people who have passed on. It’s litter and there are ...

“We definitely come across balloons, but I would say there are a lot of other heavily littered items. We find them in our clean-ups, and our passive litter collection devices,” said Rob Clark, the ...

Either way, if these balloons are accidentally (or purposely) released, the attachment becomes litter and that's bad. I've only spotted a few balloons in the amazing amount of litter I see surfing ...