Look at climate change. That's a bigger problem than plastic, but we can't all focus on that and forget about plastic - that isn't how the world works. We can divide our attention across different things, using clean-up to strengthen… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
When you look at the humanitarian issues - poverty, education, rights, violence - I think there are positive trends. But when you look at climate change, at plastic pollution and other forms of pollution, at overconsumption, it's a different story. — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
Whenever you start working on something, you have to go about it with the underlying assumption that this puzzle has a solution, right? If… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
For 60 years man has been putting plastic into the ocean. And from that day onward we're also taking it back out again. — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
We started solely concentrating on cleaning up the Garbage Patch because we felt it was the most neglected part of the spectrum of solutions. — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
We use a curtain, so we don't use a net, so there's nothing sea life can get entangled with. And also, the system moves… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
When ideas are confronted with reality, there will always be surprises. — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
When I started there was this consensus that you could never clean this up, that the problem is way too big, the ocean is… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
The legacy, the waste, is mostly in international waters that are sort of in no man's land and thus considered to be no one… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
I do enjoy being at the ocean, like most people, but not so much being on the ocean. — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
