Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast. This is a podcast all about learning to live a slower, simpler life in a fast-paced, hectic world. Thank you for joining us. My name is Brooke McCallory.

And my name is Ben McCallery. And welcome to episode 174, where we're going to talk about take three for the sea.

So Brooke, tell us a little bit about Take 3 for the Sea and that campaign.

So it was started a few years ago, but it's a clean oceans initiative.

And it's really simple and that's what I love about it.

But it was initially founded by people who love the ocean,

people who like their surfers, their marine ecologists, their environmentalists.

And over the last couple of years, it's really started to gain momentum,

I think because it is such a simple initiative.

And essentially, it just encourages people that every time

they go to the beach, pick up three pieces of rubbish. And really simple. And of course, the,

the result of that is that people will pick up three pieces of rubbish, but then they'll see more

and they'll pick up more. But even if every person who went to the beach

picked up three pieces of rubbish and put it in the bin,

that would have an enormous impact on the cleanliness of our oceans.

So then, of course, it's now started to expand to take three for the sea wherever you are.

And we do it when we're bushwalking.

You can do it if you're at the park, if you're, you know,

in the river, like wherever, because almost all rubbish that is on the ground will eventually

be washed into stormwaters and will eventually end up close to, if not in the ocean.

The other side of it that I love is that this small action of picking up three pieces of rubbish can have a big impact.

Because I think so often people feel so overwhelmed by the problem that what can I do?

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