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
When I started there was this consensus that you could never clean this up, that the problem is way too big, the… — 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
About once a month, a vessel visits each of these clean-up systems, almost like a garbage truck of the ocean, would bring… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
The way the clean-up system works is that we let the plastic come to us, using the ocean currents in our advantage. — 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
You go to a beach, you see a lot of plastic. It's out of the ocean, it stays out of the ocean,… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
I envisioned an extremely long network of floating barriers - they're like curtains floating in the ocean which are attached to the… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
Can we build a system which is able to survive on the ocean for years? That is the key question we are… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
We might work on ways to prevent plastic getting into 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
We need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the ocean in the first place. — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
Really, the ocean itself - that's really the thing that we're up against, the most destructive environment on the planet. — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
Coastlines are very effective ways of catching plastic. But the thing is, in those vast ocean garbage patches, there's simply no coastlines… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
There are already dozens of organizations working on trying to prevent plastic from going into the ocean, through advocacy, education, awareness, all… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
I've gone on a research expedition in the Atlantic Ocean before. I was sick for the entire week after that. — 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
