Devil wrote: ↑Sat May 01, 2021 2:57 pm
They could have spent the money that it cost on improving their neighbours' environment, couldn't they? What a waste of carbon and nitrogen gases.
Your a bundle of laughs, ? Remind me not to invite you to one of my partys
Happy in Cyprus wrote: ↑Sat May 01, 2021 6:43 pm
Compared to the hundreds of square miles of out-of-control wildfires in the USA this year, the same in the steppes of Russia and more recently in Australia, one bonfire adds nothing to the global total.
True, but some of the chemicals in fireworks are a hell of a sight worse than the gunpowder itself. Many of the colours are generated from heavy metals which remain in the atmosphere, where people can breathe them, for quite a long time.