We use a curtain, so we don't use a net, so there's nothing sea life can get entangled with. And also, the… — 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
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
Truly, the only way to prove that we can rid the oceans of plastic is to actually go out there and deploy… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
The main principle behind the cleanup system is to have a difference in speed between the system and the plastic so 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