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Boyan Slat
Dutch inventor and entrepreneur
Boyan Slat (born 27 July )[2][3] is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur.[4] A former aerospace engineering student,[5][6] he is the CEO of The Ocean Cleanup.[7]
Initial interest in plastic pollution
In , Slat went diving and found that the amount of plastic surpassed the number of fish in the area he explored.
He made ocean plastic pollution the subject of a high school project examining why it was considered impossible to clean up. He later came up with the idea of building a passive plastic catchment system, using circulating ocean currents to net plastic waste, which he presented at a TEDx talk in Delft in [8][9]
Slat discontinued his aerospace engineering studies at TU Delft to devote his time to developing his idea.
He founded The Ocean Cleanup in , and shortly after, his TEDx talk went viral after being shared on several news sites.[8] I