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It's Free The Ocean's 3-Year Anniversary

FTO is officially three years old on August 16th!

🎉 🌊 🎉

Since our launch in 2019, we’ve achieved more impact than we ever thought possible thanks to YOU, the FTO community! Today we’re sharing impact milestones and fun stats from the last 3 years to help celebrate our anniversary.

Plus, see below for our very first trivia question!

IMPACT MILESTONES

We’ve funded the removal of… 

30.6+ M

pieces of plastic from people answering the daily trivia question

3,018,400

additional pieces of plastic from Plastic+ Memberships

1,481,500

pieces of plastic from purchases of our sustainable products

ENGAGEMENT METRICS

A few fun stats worth sharing…

There have been 1,095 daily trivia questions about all things ocean

The trivia has been answered by people from all 50 states and 203 countries around the world

We’ve posted 112 blogs to entertain, fascinate, inform, educate, and create awareness on how we can all help protect our oceans and planet

ADDITIONAL IMPACT

We’ve generated additional funding to support…

SPECIAL SHOUTOUTS

A big thank you to…

  • Our sponsors and advertisers for allowing us to have greater impact
  • Our non-profit partners, Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii and Parley for the Oceans, for removing and repurposing plastic from the oceans and coastlines 
  • Our engaged and wonderful global community! 

THE FIRST TRIVIA

Here’s our first trivia question from August 16th, 2019!
Who remembers playing this day? 🙂

It’s Day One! The ocean is the lifeblood of the Earth, covering about  _____% of the planet’s surface.

20

45

71

100

Answer: The ocean is a huge body of saltwater that covers about 71 percent of Earth’s surface. Not only that, but nearly 80% of it remains unexplored!

As always, thank you so much for being part of our community – we couldn’t do any of this without you. Let’s keep it up and cheers to the next 3 years!

If you have any comments or thoughts on how we can improve the FTO experience, please let us know at info@freetheocean.com.