Boyan Slat (@BoyanSlat) / X

Boyan Slat

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Boyan Slat

@BoyanSlat

Studied aerospace engineering, becomes a cleaner. Founder/CEO @TheOceanCleanup

Joined May 2010

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Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat
Jun 12, 2025
Excited to announce that @TheOceanCleanup is massively scaling up Interceptor projects in the coming years! ✅30 Cities. ✅Stopping up to 1/3rd of all plastic pollution flowing out of rivers globally. ✅All by 2030.
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Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat
Jan 13, 2025
When you're angry at "the 1%" and discover you're actually one of them
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Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat
Nov 6, 2025
So far in 2025, @TheOceanCleanup has been collecting an average of 3200 kg of trash for every hour of the year.
Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat
Nov 2, 2023
So far in 2023, @TheOceanCleanup has been collecting an average of 750 kg of trash for every hour of the year.
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Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat
Jul 19, 2024
Congratulating #CrowdStrike for reaching its carbon neutrality targets six years early through its disruption of global air traffic today!
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Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat
Oct 27, 2024
So far in 2024, @TheOceanCleanup has been collecting an average of 1500 kg of trash for every hour of the year.
Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat
Nov 2, 2023
So far in 2023, @TheOceanCleanup has been collecting an average of 750 kg of trash for every hour of the year.
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Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat
Nov 5, 2019
Interceptor 002 at work in Klang, Malaysia. Was amazing to see it in reality!
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Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat
Nov 18, 2022
I’m so in love with this photograph
Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat
Jul 12, 2024
During the first 8 years of The Ocean Cleanup, we collected 314,000 kg of trash. We're now collecting the same amount... every 4.5 days.
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Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat
Oct 19, 2022
As you are reading this, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is being cleaned at a rate of one football field worth of ocean every 10 seconds.
The Ocean Cleanup
@TheOceanCleanup
Oct 19, 2022
On October 11 we extracted the largest single catch for System 002 to-date; 10,086 kg of plastic removed from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch after only 6.5 days, bringing us to a total of 145,518 kg extracted so far.
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Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat
Feb 15, 2020
The plastic in this 2018 video came from the river we’ll soon deploy Interceptor 004 in; the Rio Ozama. Proud to be working with the Dominican gov and our local partners in making this history!
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Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat
Jan 13, 2025
Replying to @BoyanSlat
People in the west have no idea how rich they are If you earn >125 dollars per day you're part of the 1%
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Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat
Jul 10, 2023
We’re actually at ~250,000 kg now; 0.25% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. And that’s with a single, small system.
Mike Hudema
@MikeHudema
Jul 9, 2023
The Ocean Cleanup program has now removed more than 100,000 kg of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: buff.ly/3PD05aA The ocean isn't a garbage dump. Protect it. #EndSingleUse #PlasticPollution #uselss #wasteless #oceans
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Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat
Oct 2, 2019
Our ocean cleanup system is now finally catching plastic, from one-ton ghost nets to tiny microplastics! Also, anyone missing a wheel?
Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat
Nov 3, 2019
At Interceptor 002 in Malaysia. Insane to see all the stuff that’s being taken out. Handbags, helmets + countless bottles and garbage bags... all of which now won’t be entering the ocean.