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 has been four years since 21-year-old Boyan Slat first proposed his ocean cleanup system. The Dutch inventor and entrepreneur was only in high school at the time but since then, he has raised $10 ...

Boyan Slat is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur, born on 27th July 1994. He is the founder of a non-profit organisation known as The Ocean Cleanup. This organisation focuses on developing innovative ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For someone who gets violently seasick, Boyan Slat spends a lot of time thinking about the ocean. The Dutch inventor has designed ...

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Dutch eco-entrepreneur Boyan Slat unveiled a device designed to scoop plastic out of rivers in Rotterdam at the weekend. Slat, head of The Ocean Cleanup project, spent four years with his team ...

A floating device sent to corral a swirling island of trash between California and Hawaii has not swept up any plastic waste—but the young innovator behind the project said Monday that a fix was in ...

A system of trash-collecting booms will launch in 2018, and–the 22-year-old inventor claims–will collect half the plastic trash in the Pacific Garbage Patch in five years. It’s, therefore, good news ...

Boyan Slat is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur who creates technologies to solve societal problems. He is the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, the foundation that develops advanced systems to ...

With his tall, thin frame and tousled mop of dark brown hair, Boyan Slat looks more like a guitarist in an indie rock band than the founder and CEO of a foundation determined to clean up the world's ...