The Greatest Clean-up in History - Smart City focus

Shocked by the plastic pollution he encountered while diving, young inventor Boyan Slat, made a bold decision. He ditched aerospace engineering to tackle a global crisis: plastic pollution in our oceans. The founder and CEO of global non-profit The Ocean Cleanup, aims to solve this problem by ridding the world's oceans of floating plastic using pioneering technologies and innovation. 10 years later and The Ocean Cleanup operates in over 10 countries and deploys a dual strategy to intercept ocean bound plastic in rivers, and to extract floating legacy pollution in the ocean. For cities, there is a crucial role to take action.