 Welcome to Monday news number 45, the October Halloween edition from a very scary, nah it's not scary. So this month we released our Beyond Plastic video series, which is basically three videos. The first one is all about understanding bioplastics, by degradable plastics, what does it all mean. The second one we're going to show you how to make a bowl that you can actually eat and the third video Janne is going to show you how to build the machine to make the bowl. So it goes already quite in-depth but I would either way recommend to watch the first video to just understand the basic principles of bioplastic by degradable plastics and also just to have a glimpse at the future of plastic. But before we're going to talk about the future let's go back to the past a little bit, one year ago because that's when we developed pressure plastic version four and meanwhile doing this we realized well we also learned a lot about how to structure teams, how do you bring people together, how do they sleep, how do they eat. It's almost like setting up our own little community. So it's been a great research for Project Kamp, so we also released a video about this this month where you can see back how we did it one year ago. It's kind of messy but we learned a lot so in a bit more backwards into the past in 1974 Enzo Mari shared his blueprints on how to build his furniture that he designed online so people could just build it themselves. Which just kind of seems as one of the first gestures of open source where you just share your information. So this guy seen around the world is one of the early starters of open source, respect. But he passed away this month he became 88 years old and another old man from 93 David Attenborough released a documentary this month Alive on our Planet which is the same man that made all these beautiful Planet Earth documentaries and he's been doing that his whole life capturing wildlife and exploring the animal kingdom and putting that on video so other people can see that. But he's also seen a lot of changes throughout his life going the wild slowly getting extinct species are dying and humans taking over. So this documentary is kind of about that showing the things that changed in his lifetime and it really ends with that like realizing how much influence mankind has on this planet and how much we've changed and how much we are still changing and the complexity behind it. And stuff like this really makes you think like wow that's a lot of big problems in the world like you need a lot of force to fix those you must need like a massive army to do that. Talking about an army we've actually been working on that for a while now and we're going to release it on the 4th of December. I'm not going to talk about it too much but it basically tries to do that to bring all these people and all these solutions together to actually try to make the change in the world we want to see to really come together as one army. So make sure to visit onearmy.ert not much there now. 4th of December it will be but subscribe to our mailing list to stay updated because that's also going to be our main source of communication no social media. For this we've actually also been looking into our Patreon supporters and how to include this in here and we've been kind of lazy with Patreon I would say we share our updates but we don't really give anything back besides all our drawings that are open source anyway. But we're looking into what could we give our supporters like do you guys want a bag, t-shirt, necklace, sunglasses, no stuff, maybe a live stream. I was going to let us know in the comments below could be this injection molded t-shirt from this lego guy. I don't know I just wanted to show this picture thought it was kind of cool they actually also built our injection machine from lego but yeah talking about lego here's some duplo it's a stop motion video made by Johanna Plastik where he shows how he makes his lamp from recycled bottle caps and he sells the lamps on the bazaar you can also buy the machine on the bazaar so it's good to see machines being built and this month we also saw pressure plastic in iceland building a shredder pro one of the early builds make sure to share feedback if you have and these guys actually work very structured it's super nice what they do actually beyond this guy helped out in version three with pressure plastic I'll make sure to not put attention on your hair but you're sorry but they have this nice inventory of molds and products they make and they also made this product which is kind of boring but I really like it it's for the supermarket where you split the products on this conveyor belt and this boring thing always made from new plastic could easily be recycled plastic and I always get really excited by boring products like this so yeah nice I always end up talking a lot about plastic so let's talk about ceramics a few years ago I made my own mox with lique and I would make the mox and she would make the drawings on it so people could order them custom we made about a hundred I made a video about how these things are being made but at some point I got interested in plastic so we stopped doing that but now I found one on the second hand website where you could buy one for 20 euro so if you want a collector's item link is below yeah let's just go back to plastic so this month the team went to Italy to do a workshop with children here's a little clip of Mattia live showing what's going on so this month we also came to Milan to do a little exhibition and workshop and together with Adrian Caro and Jan we come over here we did a little exhibition with doing workshop with kids and we're having a lot of fun to show people how to recycle plastic and how to transform plastic waste into much more valuable material and finally there's one very important message from the precious plastic team because they have to move again hi Katja and this is Joseph from the precious plastic team and as you might probably know we are developing open source machines techniques and digital tools to enable everyone to start recycling plastic so over the years we've been growing growing quite a lot to over 400 workspaces worldwide using these machines and methodologies and with the team here we are managing those digital tools we are doing international projects and we are also further developing and improving the machines and processes we share so how did we even get to this point Joseph will give a very quick recap so it all started with Dave welcome to a new precious plastic video this workspace in a small town in the Netherlands where him and just a handful of volunteers developed the first couple versions of precious plastic but as the project grew and developed this caught the attention of the city of Eindhoven and they ended up donating an old warehouse the city center for us to develop precious plastic version four and that's when over a hundred people came from around the world to help out and at the end of that year they decided to invite us to stay because they really liked what we brought for the community but after just a few short months this year they discovered some toxic paint in the building and we had to leave the premises luckily one of our colleagues Jan he had a workspace in France that he invited us to come continue our work however we are quickly outgoing this space we really need to find a lot more long-term solution for the precious plastic headquarters over the next few years ideally a space where we can run the sheet press and boil water at the same time yeah so would you also be able to tell a little bit more about the requirements for what we need sure so primarily we need a workspace to continue our research and development work as well as kind of be the base camp for our international projects and this works workspace should be around 500 to a thousand square meters it should have three phase power so we can run the machines some natural light an office space and we have a full list of requirements you can find below the location should ideally have good transportation connections so connected to the rail network in europe close to an international airport to get to our international projects around the world we are primarily looking at the Netherlands because that's where we're based legally right now in portugal so we could stay connected to project camp but honestly we are pretty open for other spaces around europe so we're open to other alternatives as well yeah so in case you don't already know here are some benefits of having precious plastic around first of all we will provide a functional space where people can bring their plastic waste and see firsthand how it's being transformed into a new product and with this plastic we do our research and development but also the international projects so that should then also generate some economic activity and we also do like to make workshops and workshops and events with the people from the local community to demonstrate educate and inspire about better solutions for our plastic waste and our team is a very passionate team of creative people who really like sharing their culture and their vision to work towards a better future and everywhere we go we really try to build up good relationships with the local surrounding like buying as local as possible and really supporting and engaging with the local initiatives and people so here's where you come in if you know of an organization or a space that'd be willing to host us please share the briefing document that you can find below with them and encourage them to get in touch with us thanks so much for your help and support thank you