Garbage Quote by Boyan Slat

Plastic debris in the ocean was thought to accumulate in big patches, mostly in subtropical gyres - big currents that converge in the middle…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

Ocean plastic in particular has captured the public imagination, and seems to be a jumping-off point for several companies developing plastic alternatives, both in…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

You go to a beach, you see a lot of plastic. It's out of the ocean, it stays out of the ocean, so that's…

— Boyan Slat

We have lots of other problems with plastic in our oceans. There are five different big gyres of plastic out in the ocean. There…

— Ed Begley, Jr

We might work on ways to prevent plastic getting into the ocean in the first place.

— Boyan Slat

We absolutely need to clean up the plastic that's already in the ocean. It won't go away by itself. But we do also need…

— Boyan Slat

Truly, the only way to prove that we can rid the oceans of plastic is to actually go out there and deploy the world's…

— Boyan Slat

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

— David Suzuki

Go to the east shore of any of the Hawaiian Islands, and that's a pretty big lesson on how much plastic is ending up…

— Jack Johnson

Plastic waste is now found in the most remote areas of the planet. It kills marine life and is doing major harm to communities…

— Antonio Guterres

Plastic has become such a major problem in our oceans.

— Michaela Strachan

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