It's time to burst the party balloon bubble | Letters

Readers respond to an article by Leah Harper on the environmental impact of the balloon boom and calls for a banI was pleased to read your article on the detrimental effects of balloons on the environment (The dark side of the balloon boom – is it time they were banned?, 2 April). I attend a yoga class on the first floor of a building in Chiswick, London, and I have been repeatedly disturbed by the sight of a helium balloon caught in a tree outside the window there.Over the last 10 years, I have watched it metamorphose from a silvery helium balloon with a string into a grey, stringy mess that still hasn’t disappeared.