Challenges Quote by Boyan Slat

We have to immediately stop using the oceans as a dumping ground for our urban and industrial waste.

— Serge Dedina

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea…

— Sylvia Earle

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

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

The millions and millions and millions of tons of toxic waste dumped into rivers and ocean. Extracting materials in a way that's not sustainable.…

— Nikki Reed

Plastic has become such a major problem in our oceans.

— Michaela Strachan

I just don't think most of us are aware how much of what we throw away ends up in the ocean, for starters. Plastic…

— Edward Norton

“There are, in short, a multitude of ways for trash to escape and plastic to go missing. But there is only one ultimate end…

— Edward Humes

The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind.

— Maude Barlow

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

Plastic waste is undeniably a big issue, and Europeans need to act together to tackle this problem because plastic waste ends up in our…

— Frans Timmermans

There are already dozens of organizations working on trying to prevent plastic from going into the ocean, through advocacy, education, awareness, all great work,…

— Boyan Slat