In 2013, 19-year-old inventor Boyan Slat made waves by designing an “Ocean Cleanup Array” which he claimed could remove 72.5 million tons of plastic from the world’s oceans.

Boyan Slat, CEO of The Ocean Cleanup The Ocean Cleanup. The idea grabbed imaginations around the world. In 2015, an early prototype of System 001 was featured on TIME’s list of the best ...

Today’s water challenges call for cooperation and the exchange of knowledge and expertise. The Dutch water sector invites you ...

When self-described “ocean custodian” Boyan Slat took the stage at TED 2025 in Vancouver this week, he showed viewers a reality many of us are already heartbreakingly familiar with: There is a ...

In 2013, Boyan Slat crowdfunded $2.2 million to fund the Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization that builds big, floating trash collectors and sets them out to sea, where they’re designed to ...

Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup, aims to solve this problem by ridding the ocean of 90% of floating plastic by 2040. But, he adds, “I believe we can do it faster.” ...

At age 16, Dutch innovator Boyan Slat decided he wanted to tackle the problem. At age 19, Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that aims to rid the oceans of plastic.

Because I haven't written an update on the Ocean Cleanup and Boyan Slat in a while... They deployed a 100-m long prototype that is really 30-year old RO-BOOM technology with some new fancy hardware.

Dubbed the Ocean Cleanup Array, Boyan Slat’s concept involves anchoring 24 sifters to the ocean floor and letting the sea’s own currents direct the plastic bits into miles of booms, ...

It's one of several barges belonging to The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit founded by 29-year-old Boyan Slat. "It's like a vacuum cleaner for the river," Slat said.

Four-and-a-half years ago, Boyan Slat, then just a teenager, first proposed a massive marine cleanup device that would travel the ocean, sucking up trash. What at the time might have seemed like ...

Boylan Slat, founder of The Ocean Cleanup, said 1% of the world’s rivers are responsible for about 80% of ocean pollution. Here's what he's doing about it.