Come Quote by 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

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

— Boyan Slat

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

The main principle behind the cleanup system is to have a difference in speed between the system and the plastic so that it goes…

— Boyan Slat

About once a month, a vessel visits each of these clean-up systems, almost like a garbage truck of the ocean, would bring the plastic…

— 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

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

Coastlines are very effective ways of catching plastic. But the thing is, in those vast ocean garbage patches, there's simply no coastlines to catch…

— Boyan Slat

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

— Boyan Slat

Plastic has become such a major problem in our oceans.

— Michaela Strachan