In 2013, 19-year-old inventor Boyan Slat made waves by designing an “Ocean Cleanup Array” which he claimed could remove 72.5 million tons of plastic from the world’s oceans. Although his ...

For someone who gets violently seasick, Boyan Slat spends a lot of time thinking about the ocean. The Dutch inventor has designed the world’s first ocean plastic cleanup system but admits he won ...

When self-described “ocean custodian” Boyan Slat took the stage at TED ... As the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, Slat’s goal is to return our oceans to their original, clean state ...

But at age 19, entrepreneur Boyan Slat outlined a plan to reduce the garbage patch by half in just five years. Since 2013, Slat's organization, The Ocean Cleanup, has been developing a system to ...

Boyan Slat has had enough ... In 2013, Slat crowdfunded $2.2 million to fund the Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization that builds big, floating trash collectors and sets them out to sea ...

Boyan Slat, who first set out a vision of his Ocean Cleanup machine in a TED talk six years ago when he was just 17, today announced that he’ll begin hauling trash from the Patch in 2018.

and collected ZERO pieces of plastic. If you, like me, are concerned about plastic in the ocean consider helping groups like The Ocean Conservancy who collected more than 18 million pounds of trash ...

It's one of several barges belonging to The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit founded by 29-year-old Boyan Slat. "It's like a vacuum cleaner for the river," Slat said. The Ocean Cleanup is on a ...

Slat says that’s what the nonprofit is doing by trying to clean up the ocean: it’s giving the world a reason to change its relationship with plastic. “By extracting the plastic that’s in ...

Inventor Boyan Slat is on a mission to rid oceans of plastic. His team at The Ocean Cleanup designs and deploys systems that pull trash from the open ocean. Now, he’s stopping the pollution at ...

Remember The Ocean Cleanup? It was the ambitious plan hatched ... If not, here's a quick refresher: In 2013, 18-year-old Boyan Slat dropped out of an aerospace engineering degree after a TEDx ...