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This 16-Year-Old Boy Built a Trash-Eating Robot to Clean the Ocean, With No Degree and No Funding

Summary by The Daily Galaxy
At just 16 years old, Boyan Slat began working on what many saw as an unrealistic idea: a system that could remove most of the world’s floating ocean plastic. Within a few years, that school project would evolve into The Ocean Cleanup, a global nonprofit, and earn him recognition from the United Nations as its youngest-ever “Champion of the Earth.” A Dive Filled with Plastic, not Fish In 2011, while diving in Greece, Boyan Slat expected to see m…
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The Daily Galaxy broke the news in on Friday, February 27, 2026.
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