 on the Monday news number 47 live from the Portugal base camp which basically means a van on a piece of land but yeah so this Monday news is the last one of the year so what we usually do then is a recap so let's rewind one year back when we released pressure plastic version four in January and took us one and a half year to develop with a lot of people so putting on the line is always quite exciting you don't really know what's gonna happen but it also takes a while for the community to read the information to understand it to replicate it so throughout the whole year we've actually been yeah observing what happens from that super cool seeing sheet presses being built shredders being built and really growing a stronger community of plastic recyclers and for pressure plastic itself we had a lot of events and collaborations around the world to do but they all got cancelled due to corona which was kind of a shame but actually corona this year wasn't I would say the heavy thing on us it was more that they found chrome six in our workspace which meant we had to leave the building in one month and but yeah we didn't have a plan B we had to move out all of our stuff or dispose it somewhere or sell it and so that was quite a big undertaking and we brought all the precious plastic stuff to France where Jan's dad had a nice shed where we could continue fresh plastic so all the machines and tools went there and this is actually quite nice for us that fresh plastic could continue development because how it happened before is we make a version we're super tired we take a break or do something else and don't really develop fresh plastic and then at some point we make a new version but now we really have a team behind fresh plastic that wants to continue development on a daily basis which I think is super good for fresh plastic to have but yeah Kat will talk more about this later and all the other stuff that was still in the workspace like machinery and tools we put in two shipping containers to bring to project comp and one shipping container is converted into a workspace with all the tools and materials and the other one our town center which has basic utilities like kitchen shower boiler and a washing machine so both are ready to be shipped to Portugal and should actually arrive here anytime soon yeah because this year we also finally bought our piece of land took a few years of searching and figuring out but we finally got it here in Portugal I'm on it right now and not much happened this year on it except getting the land but it feels like it's just getting started so very exciting for next year and right at the end of the year we killed Dave Huckins so this is something I've been wanting to do for a long time yeah weird I know but happy it's done so it converted into one army hello one army um but Mattia will talk more about this thanks Dave Mattia here also from rainy Portugal but I'm actually in porto because you know the lack of a shower all right so a major undertaking this year was to bring to life one arm and one arm is kind of a big deal for us it's a project that we most probably gonna be working on for the rest of our lives and basically what it is is the foundations behind all the projects that we work in from precious plastic to project camp story hopper a new secret fashion project coming up in 2021 and what we really trying to do with one arm is to create a big global group of people that are willing to invest their time and energies into projects that are tackling global problems and we're really trying to create this one global army ready to serve and protect planet earth so one army has already been in the making for a few years now it all started over two and a half years ago when we were all here in Portugal together with Dave Kat and Ben and we really set the main core idea of the project as well as the name then during precious plastic version 4 we began to research and look into what the one army logo and identity could look like and big up Nico there for the amazing work that has been done in that and eventually we landed on the north star as a symbol for one army and a massive shout out goes to our patrons that they've been helping us all throughout the process from helping with some inspiration providing very valuable feedback all the way down to voting the final logo and simultaneously we've also been working on the website which is now online at one army dot earth and that's really a place where all the news from the different projects comes together we just recently released an article about the 100 000 downloads of the precious plastic download kit as well as the ear review for one arm so make sure to go and check it out and with the launch of one army we've also redesigned our patron page to really fit the growing needs of our global army and we now release the one dollar tier to really enable every single one out there to to join one army to support the work that we do to tackle global problems and this video will be seen by what 10 15 000 people and just try to imagine what one army could do with 15 000 dollars on top of this lower end tiers we also have higher tiers that would grant you amazing rewards such as stickers badges less yeah sick badges but also live streams and one to one calls with the core team so make sure to go and have a look and if you believe that our work is valuable to you or to anyone out there make sure to support the work that we do at one army all right that's it with one army now over to Katz for the precious plastic recap bye hello everyone Katya and yeah i'll talk a little bit about the year recap from the precious plastic side starting with the launch in january of version four and this has been nearly one year ago now so it's a very good time to look at some numbers so we got 100 000 downloads of the download kit which contains all the information and blueprints and files you need to start a recycling project we have 7 000 users on the very new community platform and 500 pins on the new map of which 300 are active recycling workspaces around 40 collection points around 80 machine shops and 80 community points we also throughout the year had around 120 events being created and on discord we grew to an army of 10 000 people exchanging and helping and asking and answering each other and really helping each other succeed in their projects and maybe the most exciting and useful number is that we have 48 new community how-to's on the community platform where we created this how-to tool to really centralize all documentation and tutorials around plastic recycling so that this can become the place to go for the community to learn from others and get inspired and share back what they learned and it's really cool to see that the the how-tos which have been created range from collection systems and product and mold making but also how to give a recycling workshop and how to modify and upgrade the machines so it's already becoming a place full of new ideas and know-how which is adding to our academy and the videos we share and it just gives these this ability for the community to really build upon other experiences and knowledge and really work together to come up with better solutions together so so much about version 4 and the numbers and facts it had and sticking to the numbers topic we also created our first impact survey in march so right at the right time when corona had the first big outbreak so maybe not the best time to get people's attention and the numbers we collected i would say definitely don't represent the community sufficiently but we did collect quite some useful numbers and valuable numbers about the amount of machines being created plastic collected and recycled as well as jobs being created within the precious plastic community so it was a good start and we hope that we can do some more of these impact surveys so we can see what impact we really have as a community yeah and then corona happily spread in pretty much every country in this world and protective equipment became a very rare thing and big issue and people from the community started looking into ways how they can help with their precious plastic machines and we saw that and made a call to the community to really share and collect all these solutions and in a very short amount of time we were able to create this folder which which contains files and tutorials for different protective equipment like face shields masks and tools to avoid touching surfaces so all of these molds are now and files for molds are now publicly available and this enabled the workspaces all over the world to produce this equipment for their local healthcare system and really help saving lives basically and this for us is an example which perfectly demonstrates the potential and impact a community can have if they share knowledge globally so yeah i'm very proud of that i'm very proud of the ability of the community and also to see how much value precious plastic workspaces have as a small small-scale recycling place locally so back to the precious plastic core team which as they've mentioned remained from version four besides or after the whole chaos of having to empty eindhoven workspace and preparing containers for portugal and moving and setting up the workspace in france we were also able to do some development and improvements of for example the machines like we did a compact and disassembly injection machine as well as a bigger sheet press we also made a new version of the plastic washing system and tested more the shredder and sheet press so we did thin sheets and very thick sheets of all sorts of materials and we also made some training material and manuals yeah and there's way more stuff we want to do and improve and work on ideally much closer with the community and open source of course but also at the same time try to find a solution how to make this economically sustainable but this is not really my topic the whole money thing so i'll leave that to joseph and he will explain a little bit more about the structure behind this hello people joseph here talking to you from the very glamorous precious plastic office in france and today we're going to be talking a little bit about the financial situation so in 2020 one of our big goals was financial sustainability and this is something that we talk and preach about a lot to our community but something that we never really have achieved ourselves so coming out of version four which is this you know big year of research and development we wanted to find a business model that kind of worked for us as an organization as well as the community where we could continue to push all those research and development into into the world so that's really what we were trying to focus on and one of the things that kept coming up was the fact that there were other organizations around the world that wanted to partner with us because of our tech technical expertise in running precious plastic projects that they had seen some of our pilots that we'd done around the world and that's the thing we kind of focused on for developing this new model was how do we help those other organizations so when we moved out of our workspace in june of this year then we started to really reach out to these different partners that we had contacts with and try to sort out this new model we were thinking of but really the core of the business model is a lot of it stays the same as as previously so precious plastic is still providing the open source blueprints and the information for our community but then actually the community plays a big role in building the the knowledge base through the discord and the how-to's people kind of talking about what's happening on the ground and feeding this big database of knowledge that we have then we turn around and we sort of patch this information and help uh help employ it for other organizations who want to get started and the other piece of that is that we use the community to provide the machines and molds for these actual these these projects so it helps them in an economic way as well and so we're actually right now we're finishing up three projects one in Nigeria one in the U.S and one in Saudi Arabia which was really the first couple of projects where we could figure out how does this all work you know who does the shipping how does the how does the whole process look like and I think we're we're quite happy with what we how these projects have gone the different little research developments that we build into the project as well so keep a look out for updates about these projects in the first half of 2021 and we have some really exciting projects coming in in the middle middle half of 2021 2021 as well but if you might ask the question okay how much money actually did you pull in through these projects it was about 118 000 euros with about 100 000 euros in expenses so a little bit left over for investing in some new r&d and these numbers a little bit ballpark because we haven't done our taxes yet for this year should be soon but I think overall we're very happy with how things have gone so far we think we are really narrowing down to a model that works both for us and the community so I think we're quite satisfied with that and of course we're learning about this every day it's been a huge challenge and learning experience but we're excited about moving into 2021 2021 continuing to deepen the model that we started so I think that's it for now and we'll see you next month bye-bye