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Episode Details
EPISODE INFO
- Released
- April 16, 2018
- Duration
- 1h 14m
- Channel
- The Joe Rogan Experience
- Watch on YouTube
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Boyan Slat is an inventor, entrepreneur and former aerospace engineering student. He is the founder of The Ocean Cleanup organization: https://www.theoceancleanup.com/
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Joe Rogan
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EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Boyan Slat, Joe Rogan Experience #1104 - Boyan Slat explores Young Inventor Engineers Ambitious System To Clean Plastic From Oceans Joe Rogan interviews Boyan Slat, the 23‑year‑old founder of The Ocean Cleanup, about his large‑scale technological effort to remove plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and, eventually, other gyres. Slat explains the environmental, economic, and health impacts of ocean plastics and why ‘turning off the tap’ of new pollution is not enough without also cleaning existing waste. He details his passive cleanup system that uses ocean currents and long U‑shaped floating barriers to concentrate and collect plastics for recycling into consumer products. The conversation also touches on funding, recycling markets, bioplastics, broader environmental innovation, and how individuals can think more ambitiously about solving global problems.
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