It will be very hard to convince everyone in the world to handle their plastics responsibly, but what we humans are very good in, is inventing technical solutions to our problems. Boyan Slat Read Quote
The winning concept is the slow-down approach, in which we use a parachute anchor to slow down the system as much as possible, allowing the natural winds and waves to push the plastic into the system. Boyan Slat Read Quote
There are already dozens of organizations working on trying to prevent plastic from going into the ocean, through advocacy, education, awareness, all great work, yet nobody was addressing the stock of existing pollution. Boyan Slat Read Quote
We started solely concentrating on cleaning up the Garbage Patch because we felt it was the most neglected part of the spectrum of solutions. Boyan Slat Read Quote
Taking care of the world’s ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today. Boyan Slat Read Quote
The way you advance a technological society is to try things – to be controversial and contrarian in your thinking in order to get to something that eventually people say, ‘I told you it was a great idea.’ Boyan Slat Read Quote
