Everyone said to me: 'Oh there's nothing you can do about plastic once it gets into the oceans,' and I wondered whether… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
What humans aren't good at is trying to consume less, to consume less plastic, to not be lazy. — 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
We're starting with the North Pacific gyre simply because it is the largest accumulation of plastic. — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
It's nice there is a cleanup system, but if it doesn't collect any plastic, it's not very useful. — 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
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
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
This plastic doesn't go away by itself, and to just let hundreds of thousands of tons of plastic be out there to… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
Look at climate change. That's a bigger problem than plastic, but we can't all focus on that and forget about plastic -… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
It was a long journey, but it was also a relief to see that first plastic being caught. — 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
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
