A SLAT that is set up poorly can be rejected by the Internal Revenue Service. ... "That is potentially a downside of a SLAT, but you do still get all of the appreciation going forward.

Slat joins me from Delft in the Netherlands by Skype, and I asked him to tell us how it works. BOYAN SLAT: The first test that will actually happen on the ocean will be deployed in June this year.

Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup, aims to solve this problem by ridding the ocean of 90% of floating plastic by 2040. But, he adds, “I believe we can do it faster.” ...

It's one of several barges belonging to The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit founded by 29-year-old Boyan Slat. "It's like a vacuum cleaner for the river," Slat said.

Q: My son knocked over one of our kitchen chairs and broke the top slat. It’s a Pottery Barn Isabella chair that we got in 2014, and unfortunately they no longer make the chair in this color ...