Culiacán, Sinaloa.- Due to the contamination generated by the balloons, the director of the Sinaloa Action Society (SUCEDE), Isabel Mendoza Camacho, called for this February 14 to show love for nature and let’s party without balloons opting for biodegradable options.
This with the purpose of avoiding the death of species in rivers and seas, since, according to a study published in the journal Nature, balloons are responsible for 42 percent of seabird deaths related to the ingestion of plastics “They, like sea turtles, easily confuse deflated balloons and their accessories with jellyfish, fish and algae, they are the species most sensitive to this problem”.
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He added that balloons inflated with helium reach great heights and can obstruct the route of birds, and once they descend there is a great chance that they will fall into lagoons, rivers or seas where they generate pollution due to their high chemical composition, since some plastics take 450 years or more to degrade.
“It is important that we find ways to do things responsibly, behind a beautiful decoration or that illusion with which many release balloons, there is a great threat to the lives of millions of animals and the environment in general due to the generation of waste. toxic,” he stressed.
He indicated that plastic pollution in the ocean is a global concern and that at the local level it is generating its negative impacts in the bays, so it is urgent to continue the application of the Solid Waste Law of the State of Sinaloa and stop the commercialization of non-biodegradable plastics.
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Mendoza Camacho pointed out that in the last 25 years, coastal cleanups in more than 150 countries have registered more than 1.2 million balloons (Ocean Conservancy 2011 Report) accumulated on the coasts, a situation that is also a reality in Sinaloa.
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