Dutch Teen Boyan Slat Develops ‘Ocean Cleanup Array’ to Profitably Sift 7 Million Tons of Plastic from Earth’s Seas

A 19-year-old Dutch engineering student has devised what he claims is a profitable way to remove millions of tons of plastic waste from the oceans. Boyan Slat, an aerospace engineering student at the Delft University of Technology, started the Ocean Cleanup Foundation to tackle the daunting task of removing the massive plastic garbage patches, called gyres, that blanket [...]