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Boyan Slat          

Inventor, Entrepreneur & Founder of The Ocean Cleanup

Boyan Slat is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur who creates technological solutions to global problems. He is the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup; a Dutch foundation which develops advanced systems to rid world’s oceans of plastic.

Age 18, Slat devised a concept which utilises the natural oceanic forces to passively catch and concentrate ocean plastic, through which the theoretical cleanup time could be reduced from millennia to mere years. In February 2013 he dropped out of his Aerospace Engineering study at TU Delft to start The Ocean Cleanup.

As The Ocean Cleanup’s CEO, Slat currently gives lead to a team of about 80 people, but spends most of his time on research and engineering, through which he co-authored about a dozen scientific papers and multiple patents.

After 4 years of reconnaissance expeditions, testing and many design iterations, on September 8 2018 the world’s first ocean cleanup system was launched from San Francisco, soon after followed by deployment inside the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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21-Year-Old Launches Ocean Cleanup Prototype | HuffPost
Boyan Slat and The Ocean Cleanup have already deployed their first working prototype in the North Sea and plan to deploy the main device by 2020.
Boyan Slat's Ocean Cleanup to launch first array, new design in ...
Dutch innovator Boyan Slat's audacious plan to clear plastic from the marine area known as the "great Pacific garbage patch" is undergoing some major design ...
Boy Genius Boyan Slat's Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine Is Real
Boy Genius Boyan Slat's Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine Is Real. A system of trash-collecting booms will launch in 2018, and–the 22-year-old inventor ...

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