First place Quote by 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

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

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

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

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

Plastic has become such a major problem in our oceans.

— Michaela Strachan

We could truly make our oceans clean again.

— Boyan Slat

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

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

— Serge Dedina

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