Sometimes a single moment can change everything. For Boyan Slat, that moment happened at age sixteen while scuba diving on a vacation in Greece. He looked around and saw more plastic bags than fish.

A nightmare haunts our oceans. But an 18-year-old visionary dared to dream of its end. Boyan Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup, ...

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 ...

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 made waves when he was just a teenager with an audacious dream to rid the world’s oceans of plastic waste. Slat’s first TEDx Talk went viral in 2012, as the founder and CEO of The Ocean ...

BOYAN SLAT, THE OCEAN CLEANUP CEO AND FOUNDER, SAYING: “So, we are here on board one of our interceptors, which is a solar-powered automated device, which we put in the mouth of rivers and this ...

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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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch inventor ...