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 ...

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 ...

The Ocean Cleanup’s goal is to tackle the thousand most polluted rivers within 5 years. Slat told CNN that Interceptors will soon head to Vietnam, Thailand, Jamaica and Los Angeles County in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Boyan Slat is not your typical 21-year-old ... the Dutch innovator is the head of The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that's raised millions of dollars to put into action a plan that Slat devised.

Four-and-a-half years ago, Boyan Slat, then just a teenager, first proposed a massive marine cleanup device that would travel the ocean, sucking up trash. What at the time might have seemed like ...

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 ...