In 2013, when 18-year-old Dutch aerospace engineering student Boyan Slat dreamt up a solution to ocean plastics—and presented it in a TEDx Talk—could he have envisioned that, within hardly a decade’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...