 Hey everyone, it was good, Mattia here. Welcome to Mantra News number 55 from One Army, the foundation tackling global problems through projects. And last month you were destroying me because of the terrible sound of my previous video. So this time I bought some fancy gear and hopefully it's better. So do let me know in the comments if this time it works better. So this month in August the IPCC report was released. And this is basically a big ass research paper where thousands and thousands of scientists got together to analyze research papers on the climate for the past 10 years. And it's basically a 14,000 pages report on the climate at this particular stage in 2021. And to be fair, it looks pretty dire. It's a lot of depressing facts in there. But if there's one takeaway for us at One Army is that we do need more people involved in challenging the status quo, in working on projects that are tackling global problems and in dedicating their lives to these issues, well, the current situation is pretty dire and we need more and more people to be working on these kind of challenges. All right, so let's dive into the One Army news, starting with precious plastic. Back in April we released what we call the community program, which is our own attempt to sort of crawl the movement from the outside in. And as part of the community program we have two layers. One is the allies and the other one is the verified. Allies are basically everyone involved in the precious plastic community. And the verifies are the people that are outputting the top notch best recycling work throughout the community around the globe. And these are people that are being with us for a very long time. They have gathered the necessary experience or they do have the training to really be able to put out top notch incredible recycling work. This can be making really good machines, very good educational workshops, very nice products and really pushing the whole movement forward. Really pushing the boundaries of what's possible within the recycling, within the local recycling movement that precious plastic is trying to bring about. And, you know, for all the years we have been observing our community and we kind of know, we have a guess of who are the most active and proficient workspaces out there. And, you know, we do want to start and help them more to grow and to improve and to better their outcome so that they can become better at what they do. They can, you know, grow their team. They can employ more people. They can recycle more plastic. They can earn more money. And eventually they can become the inspiration for the newcomers within the precious plastic movement. So we have drawn a first list of verified workspaces. This is by no means complete. It's just the beginning from our own experiences, but the community is growing incredibly in the last years. So we know that we might have missed out on someone, but that's no problem for that because you can go on the academy and you can apply to become verified. So let me introduce you the verified workspaces that we have selected. So we have BOP, of course, Brothers Makes, Johan Plasto, Easy Mold, El Tornillo, Utoplast, Kriacreggie, Kujten Shmire, Zelenu, Precious Plastic Shanghai, Precious Plastic USA, Recycled Rebuild, Precious Plastic Lancaster, Recycled Le Recycler Fu, sorry I can never pronounce that laundry. Precious Plastic Melbourne, Peter Bass Machinery, Samsara from India, Joy Burnau, Precious Plastic Ukraine, Precious Plastic Philippines, No Plastic Sunday, Precious Plastic Bangkok, Necologica, Robris, Smelt, Plastplan and Steel Life. So that's the first verified group. That's just the beginning and more people will be added as we move on. Once again, we really want to stress that this is not the final list. This is just the beginning. So if you think you should be there or you know someone that should be there, make sure to go on the academy, get on the form and apply to become a verified. For the past year we've been working on a new project in Jordan and this time is in collaboration with the Royal Family so it should be a lot of fun. And a very interesting element of this project is that we're going to be creating a precious plastic recycling workspace in Amman, which is going to be run entirely by women, which is a very sensitive topic in a notoriously men-driven society as it can be in Jordan. And so we're trying to bring along some recycling innovation alongside social change. For this particular project we've been collaborating a lot with verified workspaces. As an example we made these very nice beam molds together with EasyMold. Hey, it's Fritz from EasyMolds. We make molds for precious plastic community and encourage companies to use more plastic in their products. So this month we made this nice Beats mold for precious plastic and developed together with Dunn. And you can actually make 50 pieces in one injection shot, which is quite impressive given the simple machines we're using here. Peter Bass Machinery will make all the machines that will go over there and Rory from Recycled Rebuild made our brick mold. So this goes to show how we want to help and support more people within the community so that if we get some clients we want to funnel some of the money to them so that they can do more of what they do and hopefully grow their team, grow their earning, make more money and recycle more and bring more people into the movement. This past month we also released a new support page for precious plastic for all the beautiful souls out there that want to support the project. And of course you can help precious plastic with a single donation, you can become a patron and support monthly. And from now on you can also support precious plastic with big development, which means that from now on you can select different projects that you or your organization can support, like making a house from plastic, making a new version of the machine, making new molds. And this really helps precious plastic with like big leaps forward. And lastly we also introduced cryptos as a way to support precious plastic. So if you do have a few cryptos laying around and they're now worth millions, you know what to do. Next the community platform, our own one army software project. And this month Dave and Chris released a new website that explained what it is in details. And we launched, we begin working on the community platform back at the beginning of version four, so about three years ago. And we've been using it on precious plastic for the past two years and we have about 10,000 users using it. And the goal for this year is to also deploy it to fix infection and eventually next year also to project camp. But the goal of the community platform is really to open it up to more open hardware project out there that are tackling global problems. So that we can support communities beyond one army. Now the website aim is to shine some light on what the community platform is, how it works, all the features, all the help that is needed. So do make sure to check it out on platform.onearmy.earth. And if you know how to code and have some time available, do make sure to check out our github. Or if you know some developer, make sure to send the website so that we can gather a little team around that project and help make it better for one army project. But also more importantly for all the other open hardware projects out there that need a software to manage their communities. Okay, next something that is going to excite a lot of you engineers out there is the new PET nozzle that Peter Bass, which is the engineer that developed the extrusion pro for version 4, has been working on. So no point me explaining that. I'm going to pass it on to Peter and so he can share with you what he's been working on. Hello, my name is Peter Bass Kaling from PBS and scenery in the basement of the Netherlands and I'm here to tell you about the PET nozzle development I've been doing together with Pressure Plastics for the last couple of months I guess. So the goal is to develop a nozzle compatible with the version 4 extruder like the extruder pro from Pressure Plastics to extrude PET fibers to make like filling and isolation material. So we're using the extruder pro together with a special nozzle and an air heater to produce the continuous flow of really small fibers and we collect them on this rotating wheel. So for now we're getting these sheets of PET fibers which are kind of welded together so it is a solid piece, it's like a sheet. But it is really bouncy, really light and it contains a lot of air so it could be useful as an insulation material or to make panels with for furniture or whatever. So for that part we still need to do a lot of research but this is how the process is working now and I'm going to show you a little bit of how it works. So how it works, we have a continuous extrusion speed of PET so the PET comes into this hopper, it melts here, it comes in this nozzle and at the end here is a tip at this point so it comes out here. And there is a continuous flow of hot compressed air coming out of these holes here and it comes alongside the melt here and blows it out of the hole here, of the nozzle here. Right now time for the community news. Starting with these beautiful buttons from Utoplast, then we have these very beautiful chairs and tables from PlastiCrafiqui in Kenya. Kat was visiting them last couple of months ago, really exciting project to follow. We have this very beautiful beam table from LASA4, very very active workspace, was incredibly active during COVID with the face mask but they keep on creating new product and doing a lot of educational workshops so really much a workshop to check out and to keep an eye on in Spain. Next we have this very inventive and curious photo order from India, new products from SteelLife, SteelLife makes these incredibly sturdy and beautiful stools but now they made this new tool for chefs and I'm very curious to see how they will be taken on by chefs across the world. Next, precious plastic Melbourne, it's always amazing to see what they come up with, in this case they made this bench top extrusion machine that enables them to do this very beautiful gradient and it's a hand powered machine that really gives them the flexibility to take it whatever they want without having to worry about the motor and three phase and so on and so forth. Also very nice to see badges spreading around, I am personally the one sending out badges across the world and I never know if they actually get received, especially now with COVID it's been a bit of a mess and it's nice to see that people are using them on their hats and stuff. Next is incredibly beautiful and big and massive table from Studios Melt from Mark and Thomas that was working with us during version 4 and they really been pushing the development of the sheet press further and now you can see the result with this incredibly beautiful table. And last is beautiful interiors from Korea and actually before we go there is this very nice documentary that I will link below from ABC about Zero Waste Australia and really shine some light on this couple of guys really dedicating their whole life to recycled plastic in Australia so make sure to check it out. Alright enough plastic news for now, let's dive into project camp now, the project's prototyping and more sustainable way of living and ever since beginning the project back in 2020 people have been asking to come and help and support the project with their skills and their hands. And I'm happy to tell you that this month the first ever project camp helper has come to Portugal to support Dave and Rita in building this new project and this is Jan and he's been tasked with making a compost toilet, officially marking the end of Dave's poop holes. And if you also want to come and help support the project make sure to go on support.projectcamp.com and there you can either support the donation or check out how you know your skills can support the project and you can either do that on discord where a very active community is helping each other to find the best ways of building this project. Or if you have the time, the possibilities and the opportunities you can come to project camp in Portugal and donate some of your time to make this project happen. And this past month Dave and Rita were busy cleaning up the kitchen, visiting local farmers and researching how to get running water on the land. And the first video about cleaning the kitchen got quite some traction on YouTube being the first video that actually surpassed the 100,000 views which helps a lot to grow the project. And for as much thinking as we put into you know how to place the YouTube algorithm sometimes you know it just happens. And we got some very cool new project camp badges. Alright that's it with this mountain news. Now I'm off to Portugal to project camp for the first ever one army gathering. So more about that in the next mountain news. Bye!