These shocking images show that McDonald’s balloons have polluted British branches across the North Sea, as far away as the coastlines of Belgium and Germany. /VCG Photo

Campaign group Blue Planet Society compiled the images to lobby the fast food chain to discard balloons in addition to ditching single use plastic, such as straws. /VCG Photo

The founder of the campaign group John Hourston, 52, claims the balloons are more damaging than any other form of plastic waste. /VCG Photo

“Balloons are going from Manchester and Liverpool and being swept across to the beaches of Belgium, Holland and Germany. We collected 300 images in about a year, nearly one a day,” John said. /VCG Photo