The entire brain of the organization is here. The construction drawings and data processing all takes place in Rotterdam. Boyan Slat Read Quote
What I like best is sitting in a room together with really smart engineers thinking about a problem. Boyan Slat Read Quote
Can we build a system which is able to survive on the ocean for years? That is the key question we are trying to answer here with the North Sea prototype. Boyan Slat Read Quote
When you look at the humanitarian issues – poverty, education, rights, violence – I think there are positive trends. But when you look at climate change, at plastic pollution and other forms of pollution, at overconsumption, it’s a different story. Boyan Slat Read Quote
The main principle behind the cleanup system is to have a difference in speed between the system and the plastic so that it goes faster than the plastic, and you can collect it. Boyan Slat Read Quote
For 60 years man has been putting plastic into the ocean. And from that day onward we’re also taking it back out again. Boyan Slat Read Quote
Truly, the only way to prove that we can rid the oceans of plastic is to actually go out there and deploy the world’s first ocean-cleaning system. Boyan Slat Read Quote
Our main funders… a lot of them are entrepreneurs and technologists themselves as well and familiar with iterative development processes. Boyan Slat Read Quote
About once a month, a vessel visits each of these clean-up systems, almost like a garbage truck of the ocean, would bring the plastic back to shore where it would then be processed and recycled into new products that we would then sell, at a premium, of course, because we could sell it as being made out of ocean plastic. Boyan Slat Read Quote
