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 ...

Jared Leto interviews 21-year-old Boyan Slat, an entrepreneur who is developing technologies to extract, prevent and intercept plastic pollution in the world's oceans. I toured the White House to see ...

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How do you clean the world's oceans of plastic? 10 years ago, when he was just 18, Dutchman Boyan Slat thought he knew how to do it, and set out his vision at TED talk. The journey from theory to ...

Boyan Slat is the founder of The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch non-profit which is taking plastic out of rivers and the sea. He explains the challenges and the scale of the task. Show more How do you clean ...