Experts warn washed up McDonald's balloons damage European coastlines

These shocking images show how hundreds of McDonald's balloons are washed up across Europe every year - and experts say they're beached at a rate of nearly one a day. Scroll down for video These shocking images show McDonald's balloons washed up on coastlines across Europe - and experts say they're beached at a rate of nearly one a day. They have been found in Wadden Sea, a UNESCO world heritage site, across the North Sea Campaign group Blue Planet Society compiled the images to lobby the fast food chain to scrap balloons in addition to ditching single-use plastics, such as straws Blue Planet Society founder John Hourston says the campaign has been met with resistance despite claims the balloons are more damaging than any other form of plastic waste 'They end up in the stomachs of seabirds, turtles, whales and dolphins.' Balloons from British branches of McDonald's have washed up across the North Sea, as far away as the coastlines of Belgium and Germany Researchers collected 300 images in about a year, nearly one per day, as part of a campaign to pressure McDonald's into ceasing production of its plastic balloons If plastic balloons enter the atmosphere they blow up, become shredded and end up falling down in fragments which are easily ingestible WHAT ARE THE LATEST PREDICTIONS FOR THE FUTURE IMPACT OF OCEAN WASTE?