The Ocean Cleanup device has been redesigned—and is almost ready to try again After its first voyage resulted in disappointment, Boyan Slat's team has made some major fixes. Now they're ready to try ...

After spending months clearing plastic waste from the Ajnar River, Bittu Tabahi captured the attention of Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup.

What began as a one-man effort to clean the heavily polluted Ajnar River in Madhya Pradesh has now gained international attention, with The Ocean Cleanup founder and CEO Boyan Slat inviting ...

The 19-year-old Boyan Slat announced his Ocean Cleanup Array concept is technically and financially viable to rid the ocean of plastic pollution. While diving in Greece as a 16-year-old, Boyan Slat ...

When asked whether he feels people doubt him more because he’s young, Slat says, “Yes, but I never felt youth to be a disadvantage.” Problem: We’ve trashed our oceans. Solution: Boyan Slat. At 17, ...

Boyan Slat is not your typical 21-year-old. At an age when most people are still trying to figure out what they're going to do with their lives, the Dutch innovator is the head of The Ocean Cleanup, a ...

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. Although his idea received ...

It’s been four years since Boyan Slat first stood on a TED stage and proposed his massive ocean cleanup machine. The Dutch entrepreneur was only 17 at the time and still in high school. But he’s since ...

Boyan Slat is not your typical 21-year-old. At an age when most people are still trying to figure out what they're going to do with their lives, the Dutch innovator is the head of The Ocean Cleanup, a ...