Episode Transcript: #1104 - Boyan Slat
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3, 2, 1, yes. Hello, Boyan.
Hi there. Welcome. Thank you.
Thanks for doing this. I really appreciate it. And I love what you're doing. I've seen your TED Talk,
I've seen many numerous conferences that you've appeared at, and discussions you've given on this.
And for people to jump into this right now, what you've done is think long and hard
and devise a method to try to clean up some of the plastic that we have floating around in the ocean.
Famously the Pacific Garbage Patch, this enormous patch of garbage that's between California and Hawaii.
How did you get involved in this? And what, you're a young guy, how old are you?
23 already.
23 already? You sound like, oh my god, I'm so old.
Getting old.
Yeah. How old were you when you started this?
I think I started thinking about this when I was 16 and found this organization when I was 18.
That's crazy. All you lazy fucks out there that are 16 years old and aren't doing shit with your life,
just think about this kid. That's amazing. I'm so happy there's people like you in the world.
Thank you.
Yeah.
So you started thinking about it when you were 16, and this is something that is extremely disturbing
to anybody that's paid attention, especially when you see the birds that have died with all these plastic bottle caps inside their bodies.
And you see their carcasses with these multi-colored caps in them, and they thought these things were food.