Balloons are a wasteful, single-use product that quickly become trash. It is irresponsible for organizations and companies to use helium-filled balloons as promotional products or fundraising, as they have such a high probability of ending up as flyaway litter.
Companies and organizations who have had their balloons found polluting and risking harm to animals and the environment end up on the Wall of Shame. They are removed when they ditch the trashy balloons!
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National Association of REALTORS®
Many Realtors advertise with trashy balloons. These wasteful single-use items often end up polluting some far off place.
Zion National Park in Southern Utah. Photo: J. Bilsky

Palm III Realty
This yellow shreddy, that belonged to Palm III Realty of Fernandina Beach, FL, washed ashore on St. Augustine Beach FL and was found on 5/4/2013. According to Palm III Realty it was released at Fernandina’s Annual Shrimp Festival a few days earlier and about 70 miles North of where is was found. They were apologetic about the littering but did not specifically say they would stop giving the balloons away.
www.palm3realty.com
Photo: TBP

Houlihan Lawrence Real Estate
This balloon was found in Newport, Rhode Island. Houlihan Lawrence Real Estate is in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey.
Photo: J. Olson, Newport, Rhode Island

Nebraska Huskers
This balloon was released at a Nebraska-Lincoln football game & was found in Princeton, Kansas, about 200 miles away. Photo: M. Carey

Nebraska Huskers
After being released during a football game this UNL balloon was found entangled in bushes at Ludington State Park in Michigan – over 560 miles away.
Photo by: Debbie Maglothlin

Nebraska Huskers
I live about 4 miles from Memorial Stadium at UNL. Last year a balloon floated my way during a football game and I have had it buried in a veg bed (mostly compost) for the last 14 months. I dug it out today to show how biodegradable the balloon isn’t.”
Quote & photo by: Benjamin Vogt 11/30/2013
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