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.

When you’re trying to save the world you can be forgiven for sounding a little tired. And Boyan Slat, the Dutch wunderkind who exploded onto the world stage in 2012 with a TEDx talk on ocean plastic ...

Young Dutch inventor Boyan Slat, right, unveils the Interceptor in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. Slat is taking his effort to clean up floating plastic from the Pacific Ocean to ...

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 ...

Boyan Slat at the Sept. 8 launch of Ocean Cleanup in SF Bay Barbara Munker/DPA/ZUMA SAN FRANCISCO — With the Golden Gate Bridge in front of him, Boyan Slat points to the horizon and says how nice it ...

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, ...

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 ...