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The 20-Year-Old With a Plan to Rid the Sea of Plastic (2014x12)

Ausstrahlung: Sep 24, 2014

Boyan Slat's story is not quite that of a 20-year-old Wunderkind who magically found a potential fix to a longstanding problem. It's perhaps more accurately described as a combination of personal dedication and trial and error. When going through his old prototypes for a technology that would passively scrub oceans of plastic, he's almost embarrassed of his early concepts.