Slat: Ocean Cleanup technology will be ready to scale by late 2024
Boyan Slat · Ep 69: How a Teenager Set Out to Rid the Ocean of Plastic; Boyan Slat & the Ocean Cleanup · Joe Lonsdale · Nov 8, 2023 · at 17:41
Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, outlines the readiness timeline for deploying their ocean plastic cleanup systems at global scale.
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“And yeah, I think in about nine months time, we should be at the point that we can say, Hey, we're ready. We're ready for this. The technology is ready. Now it's just up to the willingness of the world to make this happen and make it scale.”
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