We need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the ocean in the first place. — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
We absolutely need to clean up the plastic that's already in the ocean. It won't go away by itself. But we do… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer of the venture capitalist-style approach to solving problems. Rather than doing many small things that you hope add… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
The concentration of plastic is rapidly increasing in the gyres. Even if you were to close off the tap, and no more… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
The worst is yet to come, because all the plastic that is already out there is going to become more hazardous if… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
When I was 16 years old, I went scuba diving in Greece and saw more plastic bags than fish. I wondered why… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
It's a very strange experience to be four or five days from the closest point of land, and you see more plastic… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
To truly rid the oceans of plastic, what we need to do is two things: One, we need to clean up the… — 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
