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{{Infobox person
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| name = Boyan Slat
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| image = Boyan Slat (2018).jpg
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1994|7|27|df=yes}}
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| birth_place = [[Delft]], Netherlands
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| alma_mater =
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| occupation = Inventor, entrepreneur
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| known_for = Ocean cleanup action
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| website = {{URL|http://www.boyanslat.com/}}
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'''Boyan Slat''' (born {{birth date|1994|7|27|df=yes}})<ref name="wiwo20140724">{{cite web | language = German | first = Tobias | last = Finger | url = http://green.wiwo.de/the-ocean-cleanup-dieser-student-will-die-weltmeere-vom-plastikmuell-befreien/ | title = The Ocean – Dieser Student will die Weltmeere vom Plastikmüll befreien | trans-title = The Ocean: This student wants to rid the seas of plastic waste | department = Umwelt [environment] | publisher = [[Wirtschaftswoche#WiWo Green|WiWo Green]] | date = 24 June 2014 }}</ref><ref name="bw20140916">{{cite web|url=http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-16/this-dutch-wunderkind-now-has-the-funds-to-build-his-ocean-cleanup-machine|title=This Dutch Wunderkind Now Has the Funds to Build His Ocean Cleanup Machine|last=Winter|first=Caroline|date=16 September 2014|publisher=Bloomberg Businessweek}}</ref> is a [[Dutch people|Dutch]] inventor and entrepreneur.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Boyan_Slat|title=Researchgate|last=Boyan|first=Slat|date=20 October 2019|website=Researchgate|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> A former [[aerospace engineering]] student,<ref name="Welt20141024">{{cite news | language = German | first = Josephine | last = Pabst | url = https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article131834451/Idee-eines-20-Jaehrigen-koennte-die-Ozeane-entmuellen.html | title = Idee eines 20-Jährigen könnte die Ozeane entmüllen | newspaper = [[Die Welt]] | date = 24 October 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://boyanslat.com/|title=Boyan Slat|website=BoyanSlat.com|access-date=24 July 2017}}</ref> he is the [[Chief executive officer|CEO]] of [[The Ocean Cleanup]].<ref name="www.theoceancleanup.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theoceancleanup.com/about/|title=About|website=The Ocean|access-date=24 July 2017}}</ref>
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==Initial interest in plastic pollution==
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In 2011, aged 16, Slat came across more plastic than fish while diving in Greece. He decided to devote a high school project for deeper investigation into ocean [[plastic pollution]] and why it was considered impossible to clean up. He later came up with the idea to build a passive system, using the circulating ocean currents to his advantage, which he presented at a [[TEDx]] talk in [[Delft]] in 2012.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theoceancleanup.com/milestones/how-it-all-began/|title=How it all began|website=The Ocean Cleanup |access-date=6 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=How the oceans can clean themselves: Boyan Slat at TEDxDelft|date=24 October 2014|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROW9F-c0kIQ |website=YouTube |accessdate=6 June 2017}}</ref>
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Slat discontinued his aerospace engineering studies at [[Delft University of Technology|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 news sites.<ref name=":1" />
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"Technology is the most potent agent of change. It is an amplifier of our human capabilities", Slat wrote in ''[[The Economist]]''. "Whereas other change-agents rely on reshuffling the existing building blocks of society, technological innovation creates entirely new ones, expanding our problem-solving toolbox."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theworldin.com/edition/2017/article/12652/sea-change|title=The Economist|last=Slat|first=Boyan|website=The Economist|access-date=}}</ref>
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==The Ocean Cleanup==
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In 2013 Slat founded the non-profit entity The Ocean Cleanup, of which he is now the [[Chief executive officer|CEO]].<ref name="www.theoceancleanup.com"/> The group's mission is to develop advanced technologies to rid the world's oceans of plastic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theoceancleanup.com/about/|title=About|website=The Ocean Cleanup |access-date=6 June 2017}}</ref> It raised US$2.2{{nbsp}}million through a crowd funding campaign with the help of 38,000 donors from 160 countries.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theoceancleanup.com/milestones/crowd-funding-campaign/|title=Crowd Funding Campaign|website=The Ocean Cleanup|access-date=6 June 2017}}</ref> In June 2014, the Ocean Cleanup published a 528-page feasibility study<ref>{{cite
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|url=https://www.theoceancleanup.com/fileadmin/media-archive/Documents/TOC_Feasibility_study_lowres_V2_0.pdf
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|title=How the oceans can clean themselves: a feasibility study
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|date=June 2014
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|first=Boyan
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|last=Slat
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|access-date=24 February 2018
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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180423170230/https://www.theoceancleanup.com/fileadmin/media-archive/Documents/TOC_Feasibility_study_lowres_V2_0.pdf
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|archive-date=23 April 2018
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}} This is version 2.0 of the study. It states (p. 9) that version 1.0 is available on request.</ref> about the project's potential. [[Oceanography|Oceanographers]] Kim Martini and Miriam Goldstein declared the concept unfeasible in a technical critique<ref>{{cite
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|url=http://www.deepseanews.com/2014/07/the-ocean-cleanup-part-2-technical-review-of-the-feasibility-study/
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|first1=Kim |last1=Martini |first2=Miriam |last2=Goldstein
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|title=The Ocean Cleanup, Part 2: Technical review of the feasibility study
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|date=14 July 2014}}</ref> of the feasibility study on the ''Deep Sea News'' website, which was cited by other publications, including ''[[Popular Science]]''<ref>{{cite
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|title=Does 'The Ocean Cleanup' Stand Up To Peer Review?
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|first= Emily |last=Gertz
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|date=16 July 2014
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|url=https://www.popsci.com/article/science/does-ocean-cleanup-stand-peer-review
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|publisher=[[Popular Science]]}}</ref> and ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref name=guardian>{{cite
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|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/26/ocean-cleanup-project-environment-pollution-boyan-slat
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|title=Too good to be true? The Ocean Cleanup Project faces feasibility questions
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|date=26 March 2016
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|first=Lindsey |last=Kratochwill
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|website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> ''[[The Guardian]]'' reported that, as of March 2016, the Ocean Cleanup was continuing to test and refine the concept.
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Since the Ocean Cleanup started, the organization has raised $31.5{{nbsp}}million in donations from entrepreneurs in Europe and in [[Silicon Valley]], including [[Marc Benioff]], CEO of [[Salesforce.com|Salesforce]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/20/thiel-benioff-backing-22-year-olds-dream-to-clean-up-worlds-oceans.html|title=Why Peter Thiel believes in this 22-year-old's dream to clean up the oceans|first=Susan |last=Caminiti |date=22 April 2017|website=CNBC|access-date=23 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theoceancleanup.com/press/press-releases-show/item/the-ocean-cleanup-raises-217-million-usd-in-donations-to-start-pacific-cleanup-trials-1/|title=The Ocean Cleanup Raises 21.7 Million USD in Donations to Start Pacific Cleanup Trials |work=The Ocean Cleanup|access-date=6 June 2017 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170602052855/https://www.theoceancleanup.com/press/press-releases-show/item/the-ocean-cleanup-raises-217-million-usd-in-donations-to-start-pacific-cleanup-trials-1/|archivedate=2 June 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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The first mission and second missions both discovered failures with the system, but the third mission in 2019 showed that it can collect plastic.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bendix |first1=Aria |title=A device invented by a 25-year-old is finally catching trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It hauled 60 bags to shore to turn into new products. |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/ocean-cleanup-plastic-products-great-pacific-garbage-patch-2019-12 |accessdate=24 December 2019 |date=12 December 2019}}</ref>
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== Awards and recognition ==
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[[File:Sailors clean a beach in Diego Garcia..jpg|thumb|Sailors [[beach cleaning|clean a beach]] in [[Diego Garcia|Garcia]].]]
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In November 2014 Slat was awarded the Champions of the Earth award of the [[United Nations Environment Programme]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unep.org/champions/laureates/2014/slat.asp|archive-url=https://archive.is/20141117135745/http://www.unep.org/champions/laureates/2014/slat.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 November 2014|title=2014 Laureate|date=2014|publisher=[[United Nations Environment Programme]]|accessdate=17 November 2014}}</ref> HM [[Harald V of Norway|King Harald]] of Norway awarded Slat the Young Entrepreneur Award in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.youngship.com/youngship-international/news/young-entrepreneur-award-2017/|title=Young Entrepreneur Award 2017|website=www.youngship.com |access-date=8 June 2017}}</ref> ''[[Forbes (magazine)|Forbes]]'' included Slat in their 2016 "30 under 30" list In 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/30-under-30-europe-2016/science-healthcare/#61a058916a1b|title=30 Under 30 2016 Europe: Science and Healthcare|website=Forbes|access-date=24 July 2017}}</ref> He was selected for a [[Thiel Fellowship]], a program started in 2011 by venture capitalist and [[PayPal]] co-founder [[Peter Thiel]]. It gives $100,000 to entrepreneurs 22 years old and younger who have left or postponed college to work on their start-up.<ref name=":0" /> In February 2017, ''[[Reader's Digest]]'' appointed Slat [[European of the Year (Reader's Digest award)|European of the Year]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.readersdigest.ca/features/rdi/european-year-boyan-slatan-wants-clean-oceans/|title=European of the Year: Boyan Slat Wants to Clean Up the Oceans |date=31 January 2017|work=Reader's Digest|access-date=6 June 2017}}</ref> and the Dutch magazine ''[[Elsevier (magazine)|Elsevier]]'' awarded him ''Nederlander van het Jaar 2017'' (Dutchman of the Year 2017).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.elsevierweekblad.nl/nederland/achtergrond/2017/12/dit-is-de-nederlander-van-het-jaar-2017-566170/|title=Dit is de Nederlander van het Jaar 2017 - Elsevierweekblad.nl|date=6 December 2017|work=Elsevierweekblad.nl|access-date=25 May 2018|language=nl-NL}}</ref> In 2018, Slat was awarded the [[Leonardo da Vinci International Art Award]] and [[Euronews]] award "European Entrepreneur of the Year".<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.euronews.com/2018/05/23/european-leadership-awards-all-you-need-to-know|title=European Leadership Awards: meet the winners|date=23 May 2018|work=euronews|access-date=25 May 2018}}</ref>
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==References==
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==External links==
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* {{Official website|http://www.boyanslat.com/}}
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* [http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/How-the-oceans-can-clean-them-2 How the Oceans Can Clean Themselves] — Boyan Slat at TEDxDelft
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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Boyan Slat (born Template:Birth date)[1][2] is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur.[3] A former aerospace engineering student,[4][5] he is the CEO of The Ocean Cleanup.[6]

Initial interest in plastic pollution

In 2011, aged 16, Slat came across more plastic than fish while diving in Greece. He decided to devote a high school project for deeper investigation into ocean plastic pollution and why it was considered impossible to clean up. He later came up with the idea to build a passive system, using the circulating ocean currents to his advantage, which he presented at a TEDx talk in Delft in 2012.[7][8]

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 news sites.[7]

"Technology is the most potent agent of change. It is an amplifier of our human capabilities", Slat wrote in The Economist. "Whereas other change-agents rely on reshuffling the existing building blocks of society, technological innovation creates entirely new ones, expanding our problem-solving toolbox."[9]

The Ocean Cleanup

In 2013 Slat founded the non-profit entity The Ocean Cleanup, of which he is now the CEO.[6] The group's mission is to develop advanced technologies to rid the world's oceans of plastic.[10] It raised US$2.2Template:Nbspmillion through a crowd funding campaign with the help of 38,000 donors from 160 countries.[11] In June 2014, the Ocean Cleanup published a 528-page feasibility study[12] about the project's potential. Oceanographers Kim Martini and Miriam Goldstein declared the concept unfeasible in a technical critique[13] of the feasibility study on the Deep Sea News website, which was cited by other publications, including Popular Science[14] and The Guardian.[15] The Guardian reported that, as of March 2016, the Ocean Cleanup was continuing to test and refine the concept.

Since the Ocean Cleanup started, the organization has raised $31.5Template:Nbspmillion in donations from entrepreneurs in Europe and in Silicon Valley, including Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.[16][17]

The first mission and second missions both discovered failures with the system, but the third mission in 2019 showed that it can collect plastic.[18]

Awards and recognition

Sailors clean a beach in Garcia.

In November 2014 Slat was awarded the Champions of the Earth award of the United Nations Environment Programme.[19] HM King Harald of Norway awarded Slat the Young Entrepreneur Award in 2015.[20] Forbes included Slat in their 2016 "30 under 30" list In 2016.[21] He was selected for a Thiel Fellowship, a program started in 2011 by venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. It gives $100,000 to entrepreneurs 22 years old and younger who have left or postponed college to work on their start-up.[16] In February 2017, Reader's Digest appointed Slat European of the Year,[22] and the Dutch magazine Elsevier awarded him Nederlander van het Jaar 2017 (Dutchman of the Year 2017).[23] In 2018, Slat was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci International Art Award and Euronews award "European Entrepreneur of the Year".[24]

References

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