First place 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

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

— Boyan Slat

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

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

Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for…

— Carl Safina

The concentration of plastic is rapidly increasing in the gyres. Even if you were to close off the tap, and no more plastic entered…

— 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

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

Plastic has become such a major problem in our oceans.

— Michaela Strachan

Look at climate change. That's a bigger problem than plastic, but we can't all focus on that and forget about plastic - that isn't…

— Boyan Slat