Whenever you start working on something, you have to go about it with the underlying assumption that this puzzle has a solution,… — Boyan Slat Art work 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 Again 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… — Boyan Slat Cleaning 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… — Boyan Slat Average Copy Share Image
When ideas are confronted with reality, there will always be surprises. — Boyan Slat Always 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 Big 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… — Boyan Slat Land Copy Share Image
I do enjoy being at the ocean, like most people, but not so much being on the ocean. — Boyan Slat Being Copy Share Image
I would never be able to work on a photo-sharing app or 'Internet startup XYZ.' — Boyan Slat App 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 Attention Copy Share Image
When you look at the humanitarian issues - poverty, education, rights, violence - I think there are positive trends. But when you… — Boyan Slat Change 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 Back Copy Share Image
There's no better feeling than having an idea and seeing it become reality, emerging in the physical world. — Boyan Slat Become 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 Collect Copy Share Image
Taking care of the world's ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today. — Boyan Slat Challenges Copy Share Image
It will be very hard to convince everyone in the world to handle their plastics responsibly, but what we humans are very… — Boyan Slat Good 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 Come Copy Share Image
