 Hey, I hope you guys are safe from wherever you are in the world seems to be quite a global problem This is the worst public health crisis the queues growing outside supermarkets Unnormally traffic jammed highway in the city of Wuhan China near empty No cinemas, theaters, football matches, store shelves nationwide or dwindling or totally empty Toilet paper is disappearing around the globe Seems like quite a chaos time empty supermarkets empty streets and has to stay inside Well, that is everyone except here It looks like no one gives a fuck But one thing what they actually do have although it's very busy is that's right toilet paper They still have enough of it over here But pro tip from Bangladesh, you actually don't really need it. You could just wash your butt with your hands Well, honestly, I don't really get it I mean Bangladesh or Dhaka is the most dense city in the world with a lot of people very crowded So if there is a virus it must spread around very quickly here. Also, it's not very hygienic But yeah, for some reason no one really seems to care around here But I would say if it is here It would probably be in the entire city within a half a day because it's everyone is just on top of each other So I'm kind of stuck here actually I can't really go back to the Netherlands, so I'm here alone Well, not really alone. I mean there are people everywhere But yeah, maybe I'll actually find a place a bit more outside of this dense city So welcome in a beautiful hotel room got a flat screen And some mini bananas basically good to go So one last thing about coronavirus on a more positive note that it's kind of impressive to see the changes It brings in the world So for instance much less planes are taking off or if you see the map of China You see much less pollution because we just produce less and commute less It's just kind of impressive to see that if we really want to change the world and stop this machine to use less resources We can actually do it So I would say keep that in mind for later because right now the priority is on this problem It's kind of has the highest urgency But one way bigger problem is still our environment and it's gonna affect way more generations for years to come It's gonna affect plants animals entire ecosystems So I would say just remember this time where we as a collective human can really make a change I tried to keep that collective power to continue to work like this. All right So back to the news. So this month we released a story hopper video. That's all about traveling and how to travel sustainable Super relevant topic since you can't really travel But it would kill 15 minutes of your quarantine time. So that's I guess totally worth it Which brings me to the next point since you have to stay at home. It's the perfect time to do documentation So mainly for the people that work with pressure plastic they learn stuff on a daily basis So make sure to document that and share that online We actually made a guide specifically for this moment right now in the academy I'll put a link below that show why it is so important for the future of us to Share what you learned. So make sure to check that out. This month. We actually released a new bazaar for pressure plastic It's way more powerful much better functionality We would write an article in depth that explain all the functions But for now, I would say maybe just check it out bazaar.pressureplastic.com and let us know what you think about it And the beginning of this month I was actually traveling with matthi and india to visit communities for project camp And we visited out of a super cool place and we actually wanted to do a big update on this But it's a bit delayed due to the corona virus. So the project camp update might come And when we're traveling around we always really like to see pressure plastic Workspaces to meet the people see how they work see what their space looks like So we have two places one is rise and carry in Sri Lanka And one is samsara in Chennai in india So they have their workspace in the middle of the center right here in this big building So let me show you what that looks like Hello, Dave Nice having you here in Chennai. Yeah, good to see your space. Yeah Come and take you around show you our workspace. So you guys are samsara. Yes, uh, we are samsara the recycle company Uh, my name is Pradyumna. We're from Chennai, india Uh was founded by me and my partner umruthla Uh, we're architects and designers and we wanted to work with materials. I would you know, uh deemed waste So that's when we found precious plastic and the journey has just been amazing, I would say All right, so show us the space Yes, so, um As the mix workspace So we have uh the shutter the extrusion the compression and the injection So I'll just take you through a little bit of the extrusion do So we have the v3 extrusion here We just added this a little bit of tweak So that we could see the materials from anywhere and then we have experimented a lot with uh beams in the recent times so As here you can see, you know a hand beaten mold to get a circular tapered beam We like to slightly complicate and experiment a little and making custom Sizes of molds. So just basically using sheet metal and bending sheets So you can see and the same concept We took inspiration from Tim and we made these angled tapered beams as well Um, so I have Kajal explain a little bit about the color test that we kind of Hello So we do a lot of color samples here for our furnitures and we just take them for our documentation here So we have done a lot of greens So if you notice, I've just noted down what color ratio it is So how much of light green and how much of yellow I've added to get this particular shade of green So that's how we do for all our colors. So we have a green palette here. We have a Blueish green palette here. We have our blues a lot of blue shades and then we have done graze here Yeah All right, nice So while all of these were the wonderful parts we also broke Uh an extrusion screw Luckily we found a local person to uh, you make this manually for us So so this one was made locally? Uh, yeah, so we found a vendor close by who makes uh Who repels extrusion screws And uh, he was kind enough to do one for us So and besides extruding you also work with the sheet press a lot, right? Yeah, so we Took a lot of inspiration from the v4 sheet press We're fortunate enough to be a part of the v4 team And help out So we started now recently working working a lot with making sheets We have been also working with the waste that we have studio waste Mainly from the extrusion while we are changing colors making products and the fail products as well Um, it works well Able to use much larger chunks of material into this The pieces that would usually not be able to shed without a shed up Something we've been experimenting is also to try to bend htp sheets A lot of sheets Indeed so what do you make with the sheets? Uh, so with the sheets We make smaller products by CNC cutting them The reason we use a CNC cutter Is uh, these are slightly more complex to do by hand. So it's much as much more Accurate cuts. So we give this back to our material supplier and he shreds this out and gives it to us As raw material again that goes back into making sheets All right, and you also have a nice way of stamping products, right? Yeah, so we used to stamp it with the traditional by traditionally heating The plastic and then pressing it But this took almost 30 seconds to Melt the plastic and then stamp it. So it was quite time consuming for a lot of products So we got a upper press and we got a mold done A brass mold so that we could Fast-track this process as well So here let me just take a small piece So we get a nice crisp Stamp and it's five seconds for stamp made life a lot easier No burn marks mainly So this is our ekobar lounge chair that you see So originally we were doing a lot of extrusion free flowing products quite difficult and tested our patients quite a bit And then we made some compression products Right now we're just focusing on Beams and sheets So we make beams and make some furniture Add a part legs for the furniture And sheets for the top and as you can see some prototypes here We also make smaller products like this Trey some coasters All that our CNC cut Yeah, we have all stored them up for the bazaar you can find us on the bazaar Looking forward to Be able to recycle a lot more plastic So everyone that buys a coaster supports you to continue your work, right? Definitely So this is the moment you're talking to the youtube community out there Do you have anything to mention to the plastic community? Yeah, I would say It's been lovely being part of this community learning together Exploring possibilities with designing of these products and just learning a lot when it comes to this Thank you And looking forward to seeing a lot of great stuff out there and Let's keep making. All right. Good. Thanks. Thank you Thank you Hey, hey, uh today. I mean beautiful street or anchor I came here to visit rise and carry these guys over here And they've been working with precious plastic for the past four or five years And now I came down to say hi and I'm going to ask him a few questions to learn more about the project So here we are with uh, enry the founder of rise and carry and wasteless bay and sufi the manager of wasteless bay So let me start with you enry and maybe give us a quick overview of what you guys are doing here um, so what we do here is um We have identified what the biggest problem is for waste management in this area and that is um plastic bottled water There's probably like 5000 tourists in this place in full occupancy It's a tropical area. You have to drink water All the travel guides have for decades told tourists in Sri Lanka only drink bottled water. That is the only safe water so what we do here is We provide the alternative which is the water refill station We process the plastic bottles. We bail them and compact them for transport to professional recycling facility And we have the precious plastic machinery So we use the bottle caps shred them and the precious plastic shredder and then um Make nice products for the tourists here To Realize that they are part of the problem, but they can also be the solution to the problem or help mitigating the problem And Sophie maybe you want to talk us a little bit about the operations here. What kind of machines do you have and what do you do? Yeah, we actually we collecting all the pet from the pet caps bottle caps and lids. We are making a product with the like a wax comb And then we are making buckles and we are making Keyrings and this stuff we are making here key tags and everything we are making a product here with the three injection molding machine And we have a molding like a three type of molding We have it and also we have a special type of molding. It's called Pressure handles. So we are making with that that is very interesting things And then our boys are working really love to work with the injection molding machine because they're hanging the manually working So that should be they're so happy to work with that kind of staff because they're playing with this So normally and actually the people are working around here locals They come and what they're doing the boys and they come and see what the machine what you're doing with this machine So what happened to this plastic? Where are you collecting this plastic and like this they are educating actually we started this to educate our locals So local might be get some idea then they will be Going to do in future the best way as a rugam And uh, I am very curious about to know more about your collection because You have this very beautiful took took and I want to know you were saying telling me that you have uh up to 60 beans Uh in different Hotels and restaurants. So tell me a bit more about this part So everybody loves the vehicle because it looks super fun There's our cartoons are drawn on it and all that our driver's not very happy with it because it's very slow But everybody else loves it. So there's it. It's like a three wheeler. There's a big cage On the back. So because like the problem is the volume of pt waste So it's quite a big cage and then we distributed like big bins To over 60 hotels here Some places also have their own collection Barrels or bins and then in high season we can stop every day at every bin and empty it all the time Um off season, um, we wait for the call and then we go and pick up the pt And then here, um, we just remove the bottle caps perfectly clean because most of them are water bottles So no glue or no other Um chemicals involved. So it's relatively safe Um to identify everything Um Yeah, so that works really well And you were saying you're collecting about a ton a month more or less. Yeah, pretty much. Um, we started, um 60 15 month ago So our collection is growing and in these 15 months we did 11 tons 2019 was not a good year for tourism in Sri Lanka. Um, so not many people came here. Um, But it's no problem to get like one ton of pt per month I think we should more aim to like three more than three tons a month just collection. It's definitely there Still impressive. It's definitely out there. Yeah And obviously with precious plastic you can't work with pt. So What do you do once you receive these tons of pt? What's your yeah? So the the, um bottle caps We remove and we use in the precious plastic machines. Uh, the pt um, we send to State of the art big recycling factory outside of colombo after bailing it after compacting it because transport is a cost factor So it needs to be as small as possible So we send it to that factory and that is one of two factories in the world as far as I know That can turn shredded pt bottles into polyester yarn Okay, and uh, maybe um, do you want to maybe Tell me a bit about the team involved into here in wasteland space, but also in rice and carry How many people are involved and we are involving three people here Uh, full time full time working. Okay, and then 28 people are the women's are working with the rice and carry Our product we are giving to rice and carry. They are enjoying to showing with our Product example, we are giving a buckles the buckles. They are making a different type of product with that So they're so happy to be with you have a part of we are working with To love to We are working with the two benefit. One is we are getting a salary At the job another one is we are helping to the nature to clean up the The the beaches and all the NTR The area and giving a cleaner future to this little boy. Yeah Okay, but I'm sure it's not all easy Uh, maybe can you tell us about yeah, what are the biggest challenges of setting up a precious plastic Workstation in in Sri Lanka? Um, the the the biggest Challenges or that is what what the mistake we did in the in the beginning as you get really excited You see precious plastic like, you know, I want the oven and I want to make bowls and I want to make this and that and um You have to know What's the best product for the market? I have the easiest access to And then try to make that really really good because in the end sustainability Only comes from being also financially sustainable. So yeah, it is tricky. Um, you can Put a better profit margin because you also have to it's manual injection molding. So the products are more expensive So you have to find a good Um customer group that is willing to pay a higher price And luckily here with tourism we have that tourists are very conscious about the potential damage they do to a place So it's actually the perfect target audience to kind of change behavior and also as our customers for the products Okay All right, um A tip for someone that wants to start the precious plastic workspace around the world What kind of tip would you give? First of all, they need to identify the plastic which kind of plastic can be recycled Okay, so they can use that type of plastic so it will be reducing So that's identifying the available plastic plastic. Okay. One from you Yeah, just repeat what we were just talking about. Um Focus like do one thing really good I think that's easier said than done Yes failure is also just inherent that part of it. Yes, just what I think. All right. So on focus, I would conclude this Beautiful interview. I thank you guys for your time and back to you guys in uh in the Netherlands. Bye. Ciao All right, everyone community news So actually a while ago we started Working on some how-tos already with some community members also to see how this whole process goes and to develop that tool Um, so Der and Pemika from Pope made a design for this interlocking brick. Yeah, exactly that one And created a how-to-how to make the mold for this brick and it's an injection mold For yeah, this brick which can be interlocked and so you can build some constructions or installations or Use it as a flower pot or something like that So that's cool and André from El Dornilo shared his techniques on making injection molds for broom hangers and these wall pegs So you can hang things on the wall and as he has a lot of experience in making Yeah injection molds. He also put together some tips and procedures From his experience on making injection molds. So there is a lot to learn from Um, and the cool thing is even if you don't want to Replicate exactly those products you can use the how-tos also just to learn from those techniques and Use them as a base to get more ideas For other products and techniques Then it's also super exciting to see that more people are building the v4 machines So the shredder pro extrusion pro and sheet press And there's actually the first finished shredder in china. He also uses it for a meat. So, um, okay, but At least it seems to work. So that's cool. So there's one new tool in the academy which we didn't really announce yet, which is the logo creator And we made that one to make it more easy for the community to make their own precious plastic logo actually people found it and Lots more precious plastic logos have been coming up So it's really nice to see that people actually like to use it and that it's in use And to end with this month. We made our first ever global impact survey to find out some more numbers of our community Which was quite an exciting thing for us because we always wanted to know more about what our impact might be as a community Thank you for everyone who took part And once it's done, we will share the report to to share what we found out. Yeah, take care Wash your hands Okay, I guess it's time to stop. Um, yeah, take care and be thankful for the little things in life Like sun in the Netherlands. That's quite special. So thank you. Thank you