Hi all spreading information and awareness.
If you are having an event outside please please consider using real petals or other biodegradable options.
A buisness used plastic petals at a Marine Sanctuary. This is a protected location for our delicate wildlife. There were petals all over after the event which caring community members cleaned up. People are still finding them days later.
Instead of the buisness apologising they blocked anyone that pointed out their mistake and deleting any negative comments. Also playing victim that other ppl leave beer bottles on beaches so what they did was fine. Completely ignoring the beach they chose was perfect and in great condition exactly because it is a sanctuary and care for by locals.
Doing this anywhere in our lovely city is not great, but in a protected park or beach that is in pristine condition is just heartbreaking.
Have great memories in wonderful locations but please consider making it wildlife friendly.
Posted by Birichinaxox
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Same energy as people doing gender reveals with plastic crap or harmful dyes. Selfish, thoughtless, self-centred people who don’t care about the world around them.
Name a shame
The company’s response is so tone deaf…
Maybe someone should send them a wet suit so they don’t have an excuse not to clean up all the petals.
Thank you to the locals who have been cleaning up after this awful business.
Thanks for sharing! I can see photos on their Instagram page using those exact same petals so what a load of crock that they weren’t responsible. Utterly selfish and disgusting behaviour.
[https://www.instagram.com/p/DS8ukjWAUJe/](https://www.instagram.com/p/DS8ukjWAUJe/)
report them to the EPA
Oil company spiel in the future: “those few tones of crude are just a ship that the wind knocked over. Sorry for not jumping in the ocean in the middle of the night to collect it back. Everyone knows we clean after every event.”
“Our showroom is located in Keilor Park, 3042”
Keep your plastic shit in Keilor Park then. What kind of idiot spreads plastic bits all over a beach
Don’t you all know, the business is the real victim here? How dare they be held accountable! /s
Using plastic petals when you can get biodegrade-able products that don’t poison the environment. Cheap and nasty and still charging the clients a hefty sum.
what is the point of plastic petals? they look shit, non biodegradable and don’t smell like roses? lazy and cheap imo
The response is pretty dire.
‘A box got knocked over and we didn’t use the petals.’ Well why was an open box of them there at all then? You should never bring plastic petals to an open environment setting, much less a beach or marine reserve. If you didn’t plan to use them they shouldn’t have been there, and if you did you should be raked over the coals for it. Either way, fined for littering at the very least surely.
This should have been a wake up call to the business to apologize, fix it, and stop using these items. Instead they are trying to say people are being unreasonable for telling them they need to clean them up. Woeful.
Their response makes no sense, they admit there were petals in the ocean, but then say that petals weren’t used. You don’t need plastic petals at your proposal.
So they cleaned up (and then admit they spilled some of it again)… except they can’t be expected to clean up everything… but also they didn’t use the “environmentally perfect” things that needed cleaning up in the first place anyway.
🤨
That said, if they are in fact receiving death threats over this, that’s not okay either, and certainly doesn’t make the other side look like the rational one.
Irresponsible wankers, and a poor explanation/apology.
That aside – who are the fucking psychos everywhere that just cannot wait to send someone a death threat. This company could be lying about it of course, but there’s always some nutter sending death threats out like Christmas cards.
What is the business? I want to help review-bomb them.
Fuck them
I can understand if this was a genuine mistake and the company made every effort to correct it, but the evidence seems to show that isn’t the case.
I’m so over people pretending they’re getting death threats the moment they encounter the most mild of criticism. “What’s absolutely not okay is the death threats” where are they hun? Lol, not a single comment on their social media is a threat.
So leaving a few petals in the ocean seems fine to them. How about leaving a few petals in a rented business venue? I guess it will get charged, right? So, leaving anything behind is not acceptable, no matter how difficult it is to get it back. It is one responsibility to use a way that won’t leave anything behind so if wind blows something everywhere, it is your lack of planning and it will be your responsibility to clean it up.
Also, it is not beautiful at all. Who thinks using plastic petals to propose is a good idea?
What is wrong with natural petals?
Are they allowed to use this public land for their business operations? I would contact the local council to make a complaint.
In my experience lots of places you are required to get a permit for a beach or public park/garden wedding.
How can they have *not* found an alternative for confetti? It gets scattered to the wind, there is no need to keep it permanently. How hard can it be to use something biodegradable and safe? Such weak excuses.
As someone who works in the events industry in Melbourne, this company is known for being toxic long before this happened
Her speil about her content and work being taken is a massive self report. As she did and does the same thing to other events businesses at a lower quality without a hint of a tag or a acknowledgement.
Their ‘accidental’ defense makes zero sense when you look at the logistics. I’d love to see them answer these:
The Logistics Gap: If there was ‘no intention’ to use the petals, why were they transported to the beach in the first place? That’s extra labour, cost, and kit. At what point in the setup process did you decide to bring them if they weren’t part of the plan?
The Environmental Baseline: What actually constitutes a ‘small’ or ‘harmless’ impact in your SOP? If several kilograms of non-native organic matter (which often contains dyes or pesticides) left to rot on a public beach is considered a minor oopsie, what does a ‘significant’ environmental issue look like to your company?
The ‘we’ll clean it up’ line is just damage control because they got spotted. You can’t ‘clean up’ thousands of petals once the Port Phillip wind gets a hold of them.”
Ugh this happened at a park I used to frequent for work in Sydney with big plastic confetti pieces. One day a good chunk of the park was just covered in them. My job involved a lot of sitting around so I cleaned some of it up myself, but months later there were still bits of shiny plastic everywhere. Like what do people think happens to this shit they toss everywhere? Or I guess they just don’t think. Or don’t care.