Slat says that is something the Cleanup ... designs to help deal with these problems — it's just a solid wall corralling plastic now, not any sort of netting that could entangle animals ...

For someone who gets violently seasick, Boyan Slat spends a lot of time thinking about the ocean. The Dutch inventor has designed the world’s first ocean plastic cleanup system but admits he won ...

"It's like a vacuum cleaner for the river," Slat said. The Ocean Cleanup is on a mission to collect 90% of floating plastic pollution, including cleaning up the Great Pacific garbage patch ...

it will still collect the plastic,” said the 22-year-old head of the foundation, Boyan Slat, at a press conference accompanying the announcement today. The Ocean Cleanup Deployment Simulation image.

Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup, aims to solve this problem by ridding the ocean of 90% of floating plastic by 2040. But, he adds, “I believe we can do it faster.” ...