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To: Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP, Minister for Health & Social Care
Ban use of Helium for Balloons
Helium-filled balloons used just for birthdays and parties should be banned. The inhaling of helium is dangerous.
Balloons are just as much fun if not more so when they are filled with ordinary air. You wouldn't have to hold onto them so tightly, because they come back down again!
Sign my petition to ban the waste of helium gas.
Why is this important?
Helium balloons not only waste the finite sources of Helium gas on Earth, needed for both science and for medicine, but they also cause untold damage to sealife and the environment on our coasts.
Our coasts are being littered with debris not just from these so-called 'Happy Meal' balloons, but also from the plastic parts and the unbreakable ribbons attached to them. All these parts are harming our farm animals, wildlife, birds and sea creatures, and are littering our beaches.
The sale of helium-type balloons is everywhere, yet filled once and quickly discarded.
This is such a waste of the world's precious helium.
https://www.thoughtco.com/will-we-run-out-of-helium-3975959
Helium is a vital resource for both scientists and the medical profession. The plastic balloon and streamer don't go to heaven, they come back down in a field or the sea and harm our wildlife.
Don't throw it away!
Read more about the harm caused, go to
http://www.whales.org.au/alert/helium.html
How it will be delivered
By hand - not by balloon!
Save lives, sign now.
