At age 18 Boyan Slat left university to fight ocean plastic pollution by founding a nonprofit that has removed thousands of tons of debris. His journey began in 2011 during a scuba trip in Greece when he saw more plastic bags than fish. After presenting a passive cleanup concept at a tedx talk and launching a viral crowdfunded campaign that raised over 2 million from 38,000 donors in 160 countries, his team developed systems to capture plastic from oceans and rivers. By 2024 they removed over 19

14K views · 115 reactions | A truckload of rubbish enters the ocean every minute. Boyan Slat is on a mission to remove it. He’s the founder of The Ocean Cleanup, one of the organisations ridding the oceans of plastic.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0ghh4ry | BBC World Service | Facebook

86K views · 337 reactions | This engineer and entrepreneur developed a new scalable solution to help rid the world’s waterways of plastic pollution — we spoke with him to learn how the technology works via NowThis | NowThis Earth | Facebook