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 ...

As if entangling wildlife and contaminating seafood weren’t enough, ocean plastic may be sabotaging the planet’s natural defenses against climate change. A 2023 study suggests microplastics may ...

The 19-year-old Boyan Slat announced his Ocean Cleanup Array concept is technically and financially viable to rid the ocean of plastic pollution. While diving in Greece as a 16-year-old, Boyan Slat ...

At just 21 years old, Slat has $10 million in funding and a prototype of a crazy sounding device that he’s about to test in open water. It’s been four years since Boyan Slat first stood on a TED stage ...

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 ...

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 ...

A project to clean up the world's ocean using a device designed to collect floating plastic debris encountered a major setback. Young Dutch inventor Boyan Slat came up with the Ocean Cleanup project ...

Boyan Slat is a 20-year-old from the Netherlands who believes he knows how to clean up the global ocean. The program Slat has devised is being touted as "The Largest Cleanup In History." This passive ...

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 ...

Sometimes it takes big ideas to solve big problems. A 19-year-old Dutch aerospace engineering student has come up with what he believes is a way to remove millions of pounds of plastic trash from the ...