Going Global: The Ocean Cleanup (Netherlands)

The reality here is that millions of tons of plastic are polluting our oceans, killing at least one million seabirds and one-hundred thousand marine mammals each year. A clean-up of our oceans has always been deemed impossible, costing billions of dollars and thousands of years. Our guest today disagrees. At 18, Boyan Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup that focuses on developing technologies to extract, prevent and intercept plastic pollution.