Recycling Hot Air — Balloons.

The article reports on the initiatives of U.S. Democrats to reduce or compost 85 percent of biodegradable and reusable waste and debris, citing plans for their political convention in 2008 and issues on the use of latex rubber balloons. The party needs at least 100,000 balloons to properly nominate Barack Obama and his running mate. Arguments about the difficulty of disposing rubber balloons and how balloons decompose at about the same rate as oak leaves on the other hand, are cited.