“But we don’t want to create new problems. Right now we don’t see any evidence based arguments why it should be a problem.”
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Boyan Slat
Boyan Slat is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur. A former aerospace engineering student, he is the CEO of The Ocean Cleanup.
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Born 27 July 1994 · Q18324728
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2026· 5 entries
“will be submitting to a high-impact open-access peer reviewed journal”
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“the forces are actually a lot lower than we thought they would be”
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Indiatimes: Dutch teenager saw more plastic than fish while diving at 16, then removed millions of kilograms of plastic from the world's oceans and is still cleaning them: Meet Boyan Slat
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The Ocean Cleanup was announced as one of The Audacious Project's grantees and was awarded US$121 million to go towards its 30 Cities Program
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2025· 1 entry
Slat featured on Forbes' Sustainability Leaders List, as well as The Independent's Climate 100 List
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2024· 3 entries
Yahoo: TIME100 Climate 2024: Boyan Slat
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Was named as one of the 100 most influential people in Time Magazine's Climate list
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The organization announced it had removed over a million pounds of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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2022· 1 entry
An updated version of the technology, System 002, removed over 62,000 lbs of plastic
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2020· 2 entries
Awarded Prince of Girona award (2020).
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Slat was honored with the Future 50 Leaders honoree award by the Project Management Institute
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2019· 2 entries
Men's Journal: Boyan Slat declares Ocean Cleanup project is possible
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System 001/B, which was a redesign of System 001, successfully captured plastic
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2018· 1 entry
Slat was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci International Art Award and Euronews award "European Entrepreneur of the Year"
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2017· 5 entries
Awarded Dutchman of the Year (2017).
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Awarded European of the Year (2017).
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Awarded Heyerdahl Award (2017).
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“Technology is the most potent agent of change. It is an amplifier of our human capabilities ... Whereas other change-agents rely on reshuffling the existing building blocks of society, technological innovation creates entirely new ones, expanding our problem-solving tool-range.”
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Slat wrote in The Economist: "Technology is the most potent agent of change
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Index Award (2015).
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2014· 2 entries
Inhabitat: INTERVIEW: Boyan Slat, Teenage Inventor of the Ocean Cleanup Array
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Awarded Champions of the Earth (2014).
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2013· 2 entries
Slat founded the non-profit The Ocean Cleanup, of which he serves as the CEO
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And shortly after, his TEDx talk went viral after being shared on several news sites
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2011· 2 entries
By venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel
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Slat went scuba diving in Greece and found that the amount of plastic surpassed the number of fish in the area he explored
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1994· 1 entry
Born 1994-07-27.
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