Boyan Slat ✓
@BoyanSlat · joined 12 May 2010
Studied aerospace engineering, becomes a cleaner. Founder/CEO @TheOceanCleanup
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We're focused on what's the fastest and cheapest path to ridding the oceans of plastic.
Waste mgmt in middle-income countries costs ~USD 50/ton. With 12.5% of municipal waste being plastic and 0.15% of that plastic ending up in the ocean, it costs about USD 250,000/ton to
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@BoyanSlat Have you all considered getting ‘upstream’ of the problem and working with countries on access to landfill disposal and incineration?
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Good article on the merits of landfills over recycling.
The most important thing is to collect the waste and prevent it from flowing into the environment; whether you then put it in a sanitary landfill vs incinerate it in a controlled environment vs recycle it doesn’t really
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@BoyanSlat Which leads to some very unfortunate effects when the second kind solve their problem but all the employees want to keep their jobs.
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@BoyanSlat 100%. You guys are doing amazing work! When do you predict ocean cleanup will be able to shut down?
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@BoyanSlat How close are you to the solution Boyan - we're all behind you...
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There are two kinds of nonprofits: those that should exist forever (e.g. museums, universities) and those that should exist for as little time as possible (those that exist to solve a problem).
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One big advantage of solving problems through technology is that you don't need 8.3 billion people to change their actions. Just a very tiny portion of the population can solve a global problem. The quality of a solution can be judged by how few people it requires to succeed.
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Using long range drones to hunt for plastic hotspots in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch https://t.co/cgmMTWPlHa
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@BoyanSlat @TheOceanCleanup Thank you. Something positive. This should be internationally, supported, financially, politically in anyway possible.
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Today we're sharing the first 8 cities of this next scale-up wave: https://t.co/IU6BF83ZpQ
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We are on track to double our impact in 2025.
The 30 Cities program should enable us to keep this growth rate going in the coming years. https://t.co/sDX9c8TNWR
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Excited to announce that @TheOceanCleanup is massively scaling up Interceptor projects in the coming years!
✅30 Cities.
✅Stopping up to 1/3rd of all plastic pollution flowing out of rivers globally.
✅All by 2030. https://t.co/I8BMqFokyg
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Against accounts of the same size
10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views27 607this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %13.81%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %2.11%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 27 607 | 5 983 | 4.61× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 13.81% | 1.49% | 9.27× |
| Engagement rate | 2.11% | 0.93% | 2.27× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
7K12 Jun
7.6K
6.5K
700
15.8K28 Aug
22.3K1 Sep
54.9K
193
704
16.2K
67.6K2 Sep
32.9K3 Sep
54.9K
42.9K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
3.88%12 Jun
2.49%
1.62%
1.71%
4.12%28 Aug
4.10%1 Sep
2.33%
2.59%
0.99%
1.55%
1.88%2 Sep
2.46%3 Sep
0.03%
1.31%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes85.4%8 484 in total
Reposts7.9%786 in total
Replies2.3%229 in total
Quotes0.7%68 in total
Bookmarks3.7%367 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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