Because Quote by Boyan Slat

Plastic has become such a major problem in our oceans.

— Michaela Strachan

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

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 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

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

— David Suzuki

Plastic debris in the ocean was thought to accumulate in big patches, mostly in subtropical gyres - big currents that converge in the middle…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

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

— Boyan Slat

As sustainability becomes more and more of a concern, we're going to see more plastics.

— Greg Lynn

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

Take something you really don't think about: Plastics in the ocean. I mean plastics in the ocean have an enormous ecological effect.

— Noam Chomsky

Go to the east shore of any of the Hawaiian Islands, and that's a pretty big lesson on how much plastic is ending up…

— Jack Johnson

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