Boyan Slat, CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, talks about the new and improved river plastic Interceptors and the nonprofit's plans for building and deploying more of them around the world. I'm an ...

According to The Ocean Cleanup, Slat was born and raised in the Netherlands. He attended Delft University of Technology, majoring in aerospace engineering. When Slat was 16 years old, in 2011, he ...

Boyan Slat, designer of The Ocean Cleanup Array; photo courtesy The Ocean Cleanup So, Slat created such a system, called The Ocean Cleanup Array, and set out to determine its feasibility. He had ...

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 ...

Interceptor 007 is a not-so-secret agent of trash collection at the mouth of a Los Angeles waterway. It's one of several barges belonging to The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit founded by 29-year-old ...

Boyan Slat built tech to remove plastic from seas and rivers. Ocean Cleanup uses barriers and solar-powered Interceptors. Promising, but cutting plastic use remains essential. Did our AI summary help?

Linda Nordling is a freelance journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. I’m the founder and chief executive of The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, that ...

Booth is a reporter at TIME. Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Image: Courtesy Boyan Slat) As if entangling wildlife and contaminating seafood weren’t enough, ocean plastic may be sabotaging the ...

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 ...