Boyan slat biography samples
Boyan slat biography samples.
Boyan Slat
Dutch inventor and entrepreneur
Boyan Slat (born 27 July 1994)[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 2011, Slat went diving and found that the amount of plastic surpassed the number of fish in the area he explored.
Why did boyan slat start the ocean cleanup
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 2012.[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 2013, and shortly after, his TEDx talk went viral after being shared on several new