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 ...

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Boyan Slat tells us that every year we produce about three hundred million tons of plastic, and much of that plastic finds its way to the ocean. Waves and wind break the plastic down into smaller ...

While still in his teens, Dutch inventor Boyan Slat conceived of an Ocean Cleanup Array that he believed could remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic waste currently polluting waters around the globe. Now ...

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