Boyan Slat, designer of The Ocean Cleanup Array; photo courtesy The Ocean Cleanup So, Slat created such a system, called The Ocean Cleanup Array, and set out to determine its feasibility. He had ...

A young entrepreneur is working on a large-scale solution to cleaning most of the world’s ocean trash. Boyan Slat started The Ocean Cleanup project in his home country of the Netherlands when he was ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A floating device sent to corral a swirling island of trash between California and Hawaii has not swept up any plastic waste — but the young innovator behind the project said Monday ...

Boyan Slat is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur who creates technologies to solve societal problems. He is the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, the foundation that develops advanced systems to ...

Remember The Ocean Cleanup? It was the ambitious plan hatched by a young Dutch entrepreneur to "rid the world's oceans of plastic". If not, here's a quick refresher: In 2013, 18-year-old Boyan Slat ...