our story: the founding of take 3

“Plastic pollution is devastating the ocean, killing wildlife, contributing to climate change and threatening our health and the health of our planet”

Plastic is a material designed to last forever that we often use only once. Plastic never truly disappears – it remains in the environment and breaks up into smaller and smaller pieces, often ending up in the ocean where it can harm marine animals, causing injury, suffocation, starvation and death. Plastic products create greenhouse gas emissions throughout their whole lifecycle. The more plastic we make, the more CO2 is released and the more we intensify the climate crisis. 

Two inspired ocean lovers – marine ecologist, Roberta Dixon-Valk and youth educator, Amanda Marechal – came up with Take 3 for the Sea, an idea where a simple action could produce profound consequences. Joining forces with environmentalist Tim Silverwood, the trio publicly launched Take 3 for the Sea, now an award-winning global movement of people protecting the ocean from plastic pollution. 

Working as a catalyst for change, Take 3 for the Sea helps people to see and understand the problem of plastic pollution, inspiring them to simple human-sized actions by unleashing the power of 3:

Take 3 pieces of rubbish with you when you leave the beach, waterway… or anywhere
Take 3 actions to reduce your single-use plastic
Take 3 people on the journey with you.

Our Inspiration

The Turtle

Turtles are truly ancient beings. The oldest known fossil is 120 million years old, meaning they were around long before humans. But the plastic we create is devastating marine turtles, leaving them starving, choking or tangled in plastic waste. Too many turtles are innocent victims of our careless consumption and mismanagement of plastic. We owe it to the turtles to make plastic pollution a thing of the past.

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