Four-and-a-half years ago, Boyan Slat, then just a teenager, first proposed a massive marine cleanup device that would travel the ocean, sucking up trash. What at the time might have seemed like an ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Lourens Boot is a man of the sea. He wind surfs. His houseboat consistently ranks as one of the best Airbnb rentals in the world. He ...
Dutch inventor Boyan Slat has developed a system that uses ocean currents to collect plastic waste. Experts consider this ...
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 ...
About 9 million tons of plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans every year -- enough to fill a football stadium 23 miles high. But a project dubbed the Ocean Cleanup aims to eliminate it with a ...
Dutch eco-activist Boyan Slat designed the ocean clean-up technology that taps sea currents to trap floating trash. Photo: AFP The Dutch inventor behind a ground-breaking project to remove millions of ...
From time to time on this program, we've checked in with Boyan Slat. He's the Dutch engineer and environmentalist who's been working on a contraption to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. That's ...
In 1998 Charles Moore, an oceanographer, was sailing across the North Pacific when he made an unwelcome discovery. “As I gazed from the deck at the surface of what ought to have been a pristine ocean, ...