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Boyan Slat
Boyan Slat

Boyan Slat, born in 1994 in the Netherlands, has devoted his time and energy to investigating how to clean up plastic pollution in the oceans since he was 16. He quit his Aerospace Engineering studies at TU Delft University to be able to work full-time on bringing his ideas to life. In 2013 he founded The Ocean Cleanup, a foundation that develops technologies to extract plastic pollution from the oceans and prevent more plastic debris from entering them.

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Inspiring PeopleArlette DiederiksBoyan Slat, The Ocean Cleanup, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Plastic trash, Plastic pollution, Plastic in the oceans, Aerospace Engineering, Champion of the Earth, Microplastics, Ghost nets, Marc Benioff, Deep sea, Cleanups, New Plastics Economy, Sander Defruyt, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Full Cycle Bioplastics Comment