Close Quote by Boyan Slat

We need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the ocean in the first place.

— Boyan Slat

Everyone said to me: 'Oh there's nothing you can do about plastic once it gets into the oceans,' and I wondered whether that was…

— Boyan Slat

To truly rid the oceans of plastic, what we need to do is two things: One, we need to clean up the legacy pollution,…

— 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

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

Plastic has become such a major problem in our oceans.

— Michaela Strachan

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

— 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

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

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

The plastic straw bans, that's not what's creating the problem in the oceans. That's a drop in the bucket, as far as the amount…

— Andrew R. Wheeler

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