@BoyanSlat

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

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Joined May 2010
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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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With today’s announcement of Cartagena, The Ocean Cleanup has now signed agreements to deploy in all three of Colombia’s cities that emit plastic into the ocean (Cartagena, Barranquilla, and Santa Marta)
The Ocean Cleanup
@TheOceanCleanupOct 20
We’re coming to Cartagena 🇨🇴 We signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Cartagena Mayor’s Office to tackle plastic pollution in Cartagena’s waterways and prevent waste from reaching the Caribbean Sea. Cartagena marks another step in our efforts across Colombia, where we’re working with local partners to stop plastic pollution at its source. - ¡Llegamos a Cartagena! 🇨🇴 Firmamos un Memorando de Entendimiento con la Alcaldía de Cartagena para combatir la contaminación por plásticos en las vías fluviales de la ciudad y evitar que los residuos lleguen al Mar Caribe. Cartagena marca un nuevo avance en nuestros esfuerzos en Colombia, donde trabajamos con socios locales para frenar la contaminación por plásticos desde su origen.
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Relevant this week
Boyan Slat
@BoyanSlat22 Dec 2024
Replying to @paulg
I think an underappreciated factor of Elon’s impact on the world is how he’s raised the level of ambition for so many founders and engineers. I wouldn’t be surprised if these second-order effects end up having an even greater impact on the world than his own businesses.
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Mission Control. Going to need some more screens soon.
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The Ocean Cleanup gala at the Sydney Opera House
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Extraction site under construction at the Río Ozama in Santo Domingo. The geotextile bags you see will form a foundation layer, stabilizing the ground for the heavy machinery we’ll use to extract the waste we’ll catch.
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By the way, this is what currently happens to the coastline of Santo Domingo after a strong storm. Soon, this will be a thing of the past.
Science girl
@sciencegirlMay 8
In 2013, estimates suggested there were tens of millions of tonnes of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans. If current trends continue, some projections suggest that by 2050 plastic could outweigh fish in the oceans by mass This video was filmed in the Dominican Republic in July 2018.
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Pretty wild times at our Guatemala projects. In just two weeks, we extracted 593 (!) truckloads of trash that would otherwise have flowed into the Caribbean.
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America is lucky to have @jgebbia xitter.cf/tbpn/status/2106154869…
TBPN
@tbpnOct 2
U.S. Chief Design Officer @jgebbia shares some pretty absurd numbers about how Americans currently deal with the federal government: - 29,000 government websites - 10 billion hours spent navigating federal paperwork - 87 clicks to replace a Social Security card
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I’ve always loved this Bell quote, so when I came across an original letter containing it at an online auction, I couldn’t resist...
The Knowledge Archivist
@KnowledgeArchivMar 18
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus” ― Alexander Graham Bell
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Earlier this month, we signed an MoU with the City of Santa Marta to deploy Interceptor solutions in the Río Manzanares and the Río Gaira!
Guillerod
@guillerodphSep 26
El desastre inevitable despues de las lluvias. Hoy 4 pm. Rio Manzanares. @TheOceanCleanup we need your help.
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Live from Río Chamelecon, Honduras
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Live from Río Las Vacas, Guatemala
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Before... and after. Interceptor 006 has been operational in the Rio Las Vacas, Guatemala, since June 2023. In this catch alone, over 210,000 kg of trash were stopped from reaching the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea.
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With our existing deployments in Guatemala, Honduras and Jamaica, and the new ones that are currently being developed for the Dominican Republic and Colombia, we'll soon have tackled most of the key plastic inflow points to the Caribbean.
The Ocean Cleanup
@TheOceanCleanupSep 22
Update: we are coming to Baranquilla, Colombia! 🇨🇴 We just signed an MoU with @alcaldiabquilla to deploy Interceptor solutions in the Magdalena River and the Caribbean... ...to protect key ecosystems such as mangroves and beaches, and safeguard the livelihoods of fishing and tourism communities. Baranquilla, and the recently announced project in Santa Marta, mark the start of our work in Colombia: the 13th country we'll be operating in. Barranquilla is part of our 30 Cities Program to stop up to one-third of all global river plastic by 2030... And we still have more news on Colombia and other projects coming soon - stay tuned! - Buenas noticias: ¡estamos llegando a Barranquilla, Colombia! 🇨🇴 Acabamos de firmar un Memorando de Entendimiento con @alcaldiabquilla para desplegar nuestras soluciones Interceptor en la cuenca baja del río Magdalena y el mar Caribe, y así proteger ecosistemas clave como manglares y playas, cuidando también el sustento de las comunidades que viven de la pesca y del turismo. Barranquilla, sumada al proyecto que anunciamos hace poco en Santa Marta, marca el inicio de nuestro viaje en Colombia: ¡el decimotercer país en integrarse a nuestra operación global! Además, forma parte de nuestro ‘30 Cities Program’ con el que buscamos frenar hasta un tercio del plástico que llega a los océanos desde los ríos para 2030. Muy pronto tendremos más noticias sobre Colombia y otros proyectos. ¡Sigan atentos!
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Haiti will be a bit of a challenge, though.
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Few authors have shaped my worldview more than Steven Pinker. It was a real pleasure to spend the afternoon with him today!
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Ever since the start of the Iran war, traffic to the Interceptor page on our website has actually gone through the roof.
Blake Scholl 🛫
@bschollSep 16
It’s the interceptors, stupid.
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ICYMI, we are working to bring more of our kind of Interceptors to the USA: xitter.cf/TheOceanCleanup/status…
The Ocean Cleanup
@TheOceanCleanupMay 14
UPDATE: Following the success of Interceptor 007, we’ve signed agreements with county and city leaders in Los Angeles to expand our operations to the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers. 🇺🇸
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Dirty river in... clean river out. 📍 Interceptor 011, Kingston, Jamaica
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One of the most satisfying parts of the phase we’re now in at @TheOceanCleanup is that we’re actually starting to change the lives of the people who depend on the ocean being clean.
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