Ingenious 19-year-old Develops Plan to Clean up Oceans in 5 Years

Boyan Slat combines environmentalism, creativity and technology to tackle global issues of sustainability.

He is 19 years old and has created the Ocean Array Plan, a project that could remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic from the world’s oceans in just five years.

With his concept called Marine Litter Extraction, Boyan Slat proposes a radical clean-up solution, for which he won the Best Technical Design award 2012 at the TU Delft.