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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

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

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

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

Plastic has become such a major problem in our oceans.

— Michaela Strachan

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 could truly make our oceans clean again.

— Boyan Slat

Plastic doesn't have to be ocean plastic pollution.

— Boyan Slat

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

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

— Serge Dedina

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