It will be very hard to convince everyone in the world to handle their plastics responsibly, but what we humans are very… — 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
I think very often problems are so big, people approach problems from the bottom up: 'If only I do this little bit,… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
You need a group of people who will continually realize that you will run into problems, and for each you will have… — 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
