Environmental Echo with PWGC's Paul K. Boyce
May 13, 2026 · 23 min · 22 segments
Host **Paul Boyce**, President and CEO of PW Grocer, sits down with **Maxine Montello** of the New York Marine Rescue Center to explore marine wildlife conservation along Long Island’s coastline…
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I've had Brian Tieman on before, and we've talked about some of this stuff and, and again, uh, my involvement down at the beach, um, you know, Surfrider Foundation, things like that.
I'm not anti-balloon, okay? It, it's fine if you wanna have them in your house and-
It's just when they accidentally get released or people intentionally release them, they always seem to end up either in the ocean and wash up on the beach and, you know, I, I, I can only imagine what's going on out in the sea when animals are ingesting these things.
A- and, you know, every summer, my wife and I, no fail, we're picking up balloons almost every trip to the beach.
It's just, it drives me bonkers at times when I see it, and, uh, a lot of times I understand somebody let it go by accident or blew away.
Uh, oh gosh, I, I just-Wish there was so much more we could do to prevent stuff like this, and I, and I truly believe it is preventable.
We, um, some of our tags that we use, we have to go pick them up in the ocean, and we often are going, you know, 10 to 22 miles offshore.
And there was a day that we were going out of Southampton, and we picked up 10 balloons-
So I think if people saw them sitting in the ocean, you know, it's different to see them on the beach, but when you see them in the ocean, you know, they are hazardous to these animals.
I've had Brian Tieman on before, and we've talked about some of this stuff and, and again, uh, my involvement down at the beach, um, you know, Surfrider Foundation, things like that.
I'm not anti-balloon, okay? It, it's fine if you wanna have them in your house and-
It's just when they accidentally get released or people intentionally release them, they always seem to end up either in the ocean and wash up on the beach and, you know, I, I, I can only imagine what's going on out in the sea when animals are ingesting these things.
A- and, you know, every summer, my wife and I, no fail, we're picking up balloons almost every trip to the beach.
It's just, it drives me bonkers at times when I see it, and, uh, a lot of times I understand somebody let it go by accident or blew away.
Uh, oh gosh, I, I just-Wish there was so much more we could do to prevent stuff like this, and I, and I truly believe it is preventable.
We, um, some of our tags that we use, we have to go pick them up in the ocean, and we often are going, you know, 10 to 22 miles offshore.
And there was a day that we were going out of Southampton, and we picked up 10 balloons-
So I think if people saw them sitting in the ocean, you know, it's different to see them on the beach, but when you see them in the ocean, you know, they are hazardous to these animals.
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