A round orange plastic smarties tube lid, sticking out of a pile of glossy brown and green seaweed.

Finger and thumb holding up the plastic lid to show a letter J on the reverse

#WednesdayWin can’t beat a (non-fake) smartie lid! As it is smaller sized but capital letter it’s probably mid 60s to mid 70s - older than me!
For dating tips: www.beachstuff.uk/smarties_lid... #Take3ForTheSea #Beachcombing #BeachPlastics

Top down photo of a wooden floor, an empty tin box in the middle and piles of miscellaneous beach finds in pikes - ripe, goggles, plastic toys, pebbles, etc

#SaturdayStuff
Me picking stuff up: yay! This rules
Me having to sort out: wtf?! This sucks!!!
I struggle to figure out how to organise my #Beachcombing finds- by size? By colour? By material? By really cool finds vs everyday stuff??? (Whatever I choose my jars aren’t big enough 😂) #Take3ForTheSea

Gathered fishing twine, marine litter and plastics from a beach clean.

It doesn’t take long to gather lots of beach litter, plastics and ghost gear. #Rathlin #BeachClean #Take3ForTheSea

A sand filled ridged plastic bottle resting in wet gravel. A creamy white cluster of oval eggs on the bottom.

#TuesdayTrash - life finds a way, (hatched) whelk eggs(?) on a plastic bottle. #Beachcombing #Take3ForTheSea

A stack of thick, seaworn and faded plastic pieces, with a row of vintage bottles behind. The pieces are mostly curved buoy bits in shades of yellow to red, topped with a long green plastic object and a knobbly orange bit containing a purple lego brick.

#SundayStack - mostly buoy bits and some fishing waste. (And a note that while saying “what’s in the bag? Oh just some buoy bits” sounds fine in US-English it makes you sound like a serial killer with the Brit-English pronunciation…) . I think the lego brick is a fake #Beachcombing #Take3ForTheSea

A bright yellow plastic sand toy, in the shape of a mermaid, lying in very dark coarse sand

#SaturdaySandToy - i have a vague plan to turn my collection of these toys into a door wreath for xmas… #Take3ForTheSea #Beachcombing

A black plastic bag containing beach litter with two pairs of litter pickers to the side.

A little time spent picking up beach litter with my son this afternoon, a lot of it is fishing twine #BeachClean #GhostFishingGear #WorldOceanDay #Take3ForTheSea #2MinuteBeachClean #BeatPlasticPollution #CleanSeas #CleanCoasts #ProtectMarineLife #Rathlin #Sustainability

This World Environment Day, dive into a reef-freshed Ocean World and trade pieces of trash for daily rewards, including two new characters! 🦀

Visit our website to find out more ways to help: www.crossyroad.com/greengamejam25

#Take3fortheSea #GreenGameJam2025

Orange roond plastic smarties lid resting on closed fingers

Orange smarties lid lying among dark black and green-brown seaweed. It has the letter L embossed on it

#FridayFlip - if this is an uppercase L then this smarties lid is older than me! (Even if it’s lowercase the rowntrees logo means it is at least 37 years old)
#beachcombing #beachPlastic #Take3ForTheSea

Last week we ventured out to Pea Island NC. Roy got some awesome photos while I searched the shoreline for trash and treasures! Another Pea Island sunrise.... 🌎🌿

#theobxbeachbum #beachphotography #take3forthesea #balloonsblow #obx #outerbanks #beachfriendlyjewelry #litterpickingiscool

Finger and thumb holdong a bright purple biuncy ball with the slogan “tough bounce” printed on it. Background is a grey pebbly beach in the sun

Bright purple ball mying among large smooth grey stones.

#ThursdayThrow - usually it’s a gnawed tennis ball, so this purple find was a nice change #AbandonedDogToys #Take3ForTheSea #Beachcombing

Beachcombed objects laid in a square shape on a woodsurface. Dozens of pieces of seaglass in various shades, two large yellow plastic objects, and other miscellany. Text reads sand point, Wesson super mare, sept 2023

#FridayFlatlay - inc half a toy peach, milk glass and a really fat cork as well as my #Take3ForTheSea litter. #Beachcombing #Seaglass

An ashtray-shaped shell on the beach, containing a cigarette butt.

Today's top beach clean find. Not sure if this was someone from the sixties reliving the glory days of shell ashtrays, or a Gen Zer who thinks they invented the concept :)
Whoever they were, I emptied it for them.

#beachcleans #take3forthesea #zerowaste #plasticfree

Part of a balloon on the beach this morning. I wish they would ban them. #balloonsblow #marinedebris #take3forthesea #turtlesintrouble

Ich mach das immer. Google mal #take3forthesea

Heute ist #WorldCleanupDay.
Ich habe einiges an Müll bereits zusammengetragen. Wer macht noch mit?
#take3forthesea #take3challenge

A black plastic sled filled with plastic waste - bottles, ropes etc

A tall man in a blue coat dragging the full plastic sled along a pebbly beach

#SundaySled I confess that I’m not the most dedicated litter picker, although I usually #Take3ForTheSea on most beach walks at least. But when the sea provides a convenient sled (for my other half to drag, naturally) it’d be rude not to use it. #BeachPlastics #OuterHebrides