Boyan Slat is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur, born on 27th July 1994. He is the founder of a non-profit organization known ...

Dutch inventor Boyan Slat has developed a system that uses ocean currents to collect plastic waste. Experts consider this ...

Discover the alarming global crisis of plastic pollution and how it affects our oceans and rivers. This video explores the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The conversation around the climate crisis in the United States lacks substance and instead focuses on sensationalized activism. Social activists are receiving more coverage and popularity than the ...

Ten years since its founding in 2013, The Ocean Cleanup project remains ambitious. Founder and CEO Boyan Slat says a recent $25 million donation to the effort, the largest single contribution to date, ...

ALAMEDA (CBS SF) -- Already grappling with how to retain plastic it has collected at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a cleanup rig had another setback over the weekend and will be returning to port ...

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 ...

More than 320 million metric tons of plastic are produced every year, and a lot of it accumulates in the oceans. At age 16, Dutch innovator Boyan Slat decided he wanted to tackle the problem. At age ...