Don’t release balloons

Little bit of a rant here, but I’ve been looking for send-off ideas this morning. I’m quite a bit irritated that in every Top # Lists I’ve seen so far lists balloon releases, you know where people have helium filled balloons that are let go at a certain time and we all watch them float away. One of them even suggested tying flower seeds to the end of the string to plant flowers where they land. At least they acknowledged that they will land somewhere.
I’m not a “jumped off the deep end” environmentalist. I still use straws, but I make sure they go in the trash to the landfill not washed into rivers/oceans.
What got me was on these lists there were specific about cleaning up whatever was tossed, but there’s no cleaning up released latex balloons which land who knows were to choke a wide array of wildlife. I just think it’s crazy that we went through this huge thing against plastic straws because of turtles, even though we can make an effort to see that straws are disposed of properly, but yet people are still releasing balloons purposely into nature.