Cutting Quote by Carl Safina

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

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 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

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

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

— Greg Lynn

We can get rid of all the plastic bags and plastic straws in the world - and we need to - but nothing is…

— Oliver Sykes

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

Plastic has become such a major problem in our oceans.

— Michaela Strachan

We need to throw away less, recycle a lot more and turn much of the rest into energy.

— Hilary Benn

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

— 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

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