Wild For Change
Wild For Change
Nicole Rojas
Episode 60: The Ocean Cleanup with Laurent Lebreton
49 minutes Posted Mar 11, 2026 at 2:00 pm.
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On today’s Wild For Change podcast, we’re speaking with Laurent Lebreton, whose work focuses on ocean plastic research at The Ocean Cleanup. In 2013, at just 18 years old, Dutch inventor Boyan Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup with an ambitious idea to remove plastic from the world’s oceans. Today, The Ocean Cleanup is a nonprofit organization developing advanced technologies to rid our oceans and rivers of plastic — with a bold and refreshing mission: to put itself out of business. Becau...