79 Quotes by Boyan Slat

We need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the ocean in the first place.

It's never really fun to be in the public spotlight.

The winning concept is the slow-down approach, in which we use a parachute anchor to slow down the system as much as possible, allowing the natural winds and waves to push the plastic into the system.

We're driving the largest cleanup in history.

I don't understand why 'obsessive' has a negative connotation, I'm an obsessive and I like it. I get an idea and I stick to it.

The legacy, the waste, is mostly in international waters that are sort of in no man's land and thus considered to be no one nation's problem.

I've always been obsessed with technology.

What humans aren't good at is trying to consume less, to consume less plastic, to not be lazy.

I am quite obsessive by nature.