How Boyan Slat’s The Ocean Cleanup Was Derailed By A Flawed Design | NowThis

This young entrepreneur might just have the solution to ridding our oceans of plastic pollution — and after years of preparation, his project is about to launch.

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[dangervich]

The title should be changed to "How Boyan Slat’s The Ocean Cleanup Overcame Its Initial Design Flaw"

[charliegrant]

Why does this video have such a negative and misleading title?

[Rosa-hcep]

Boyan Slat，You are Amazing. The real hero. Thank you.

[armandoanderson]

Great quote: "Bad designs get more complicated while good designs get simpler." So true! And a good way to evaluate a design in general. And yes, it is applicable to software too. As a software engineer, I can attest to this!

[Tikolico]

Someone please give this young man a Nobel Prize.

[guidosarduci]

Thank-you Boyan Slat for your vision and ingenuity to clean this worlds oceans and rivers! It is people like you that will change the world!

[RayZde]

this guy will be a legend. he had a dream and executed it.

[TheJesterOfGenocide]

Great job man. Your doing a job the United nations should be doing. Keep up the great work bro not all great inventions worked at first. You will get there.

[janettedean]

Thanks for your persistence, Boyan. Humanity and wildlife thank you! 🌎🌍🌏

[FlatlandMando]

By the big numbers shown of what was spent, this is still about the cost of, what...barely more than half a dozen modern fighter jets! What will it take to bring the vast sums of money spent on world arms manufacture to actually support life rather than death?

[pietzaken]

Who cares about university, when you have a great idea like this.

[salesp]

This man proves my point that most people have to be courageous and absolutely out of their minds to do something truly great. 👍

[VectorPowers]

The title is quite is misleading. Btw I came here cos of Jordan b peterson

[elsamaeb]

Thank you so much to all that have helped make this idea come to fruition! ❤

[n.kastner]

Thank you xx may God blessing your job, project!

[lucyzgrodnik]

My teacher showed me one clip of this, You're really amazing, Boyan Slat!

[hunkyfunkyletsgetmonkey]

It hasn't failed, they aren't giving up and no one ever should consider stopping the race against time to clean the ocean

[crashingxhearts]

See when people say university isn’t necessary for success. They mean people like Boyan, Steve Jobs etc. He’s using his immense knowledge and work ethic to do something innovative.

[denisedianda]

God bless this man. He is saving the world.

[latinworldexplorer]

Awesome idea, awesome concept, awesome endeavour for sure.

But we also need to tackle the other major component of this problem: people throwing out plastic senselessly in the first place.

We need to stop the flow of plastics out to sea in order for any clean up to be successful.