I nterview with B o yan S lat
Teenager Invents
Ocean Cleaning Device
by
Jacquelyn Keun
B
oyan Slat is the dynamic wunderkind behind The Ocean
Cleanup Project – a project that
not only asks the audacious
question, “Can we clean the oceans of
all the plastic floating in it?” but also
answered it with a resounding “Yes!”
Photo:Boyan Slat,The Ocean Cleanup
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in his TED talk in October 2012 when
he was just 17. At the age of just 19
he has left behind the beginnings of
an aerospace engineering degree to
fully concentrate on turning what had
been a school project into a spectacular social enterprise, which has