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Boyan Slat

Whenever I used to do sports at school, there were those children who were picked last. I just wasn’t picked at all.

– Boyan Slat

Boyan Slat

About once a month, a vessel visits each of these clean-up systems, almost like a garbage truck of the ocean, would bring the plastic back to shore where it would then be processed and recycled into new products that we would then sell, at a premium, of course, because we could sell it as being made out of ocean plastic.

– Boyan Slat

Boyan Slat

We started solely concentrating on cleaning up the Garbage Patch because we felt it was the most neglected part of the spectrum of solutions.

– Boyan Slat

Boyan Slat

There will always be people saying things can’t be done. And history shows that time and time again things ‘couldn’t be done’ and they were done.

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Boyan Slat

Rivers are the arteries that carry the trash from land to sea.

– Boyan Slat

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 clean it up.

– Boyan Slat

Boyan Slat

We use a curtain, so we don’t use a net, so there’s nothing sea life can get entangled with. And also, the system moves very slowly. It moves around 4 inches per second on average. So really, the chances of sea life being harmed by this are very minimal.

– Boyan Slat

Boyan Slat

You solve a problem then get a new one in return.

– Boyan Slat

Boyan Slat

I think people overestimate the risk of high-risk projects.

– Boyan Slat

Boyan Slat

I am quite obsessive by nature.

– Boyan Slat

Boyan Slat

The winning concept is the slow-down approach, in which we use a parachute anchor to slow down the system as much as possible, allowing the natural winds and waves to push the plastic into the system.

– Boyan Slat

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, yet nobody was addressing the stock of existing pollution.

– Boyan Slat

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