First Quote by 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

There was no direct way to prevent the Boston murders. There are some easy ways to prevent likely future ones: by not inciting them.…

— Noam Chomsky

We're starting with the North Pacific gyre simply because it is the largest accumulation of plastic.

— 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

What humans aren't good at is trying to consume less, to consume less plastic, to not be lazy.

— Boyan Slat

The worst is yet to come, because all the plastic that is already out there is going to become more hazardous if we don't…

— 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

It's nice there is a cleanup system, but if it doesn't collect any plastic, it's not very useful.

— Boyan Slat

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

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

Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in…

— David Gerrold

Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market.

— Francesca Lia Block