 Hey, so this month my friends Katya and Mattia started the Amazon Shave Club trying to help the Amazon forest So yeah, my friends helping the Amazon forest. I got to join the cause so Welcome to Monday news number 43 How do you feel? Disgusted So, you know, I figured I'll get a cool haircut something that inspires others to join as well So I would say mission accomplished looks pretty pretty good, huh? But unfortunately, I cannot record the Monday news this month because I need to take some pass photos for my senior Citizenship card to get some discounts in the bus and swimming pool and maybe take advantage of this, you know So this month Kat is gonna do the Monday news Okay, so after the whole Eindhoven cleanup preparing containers, buying a piece of land and moving our precious plastic Workspace, a small remaining team has been setting up our new location in France And it's the space is a little bit more limited here. So It looks quite different, but Let me just give you a quick impression We turned this cool building into our new workspace We transformed Jan's old room into our new office And we set up our little camp with some tents Vans and a yurt as a shared space or kind of a living room Yeah, so I also packed my things and made my way to reunite with the team in France and as I was going through the country with The second largest number of precious plastic workspaces, of course I had to use this opportunity to get to know some of our French plastic recyclers So I met Fabien from Le Puy-Coup-Bord Who is about to finalize all his machine and start his project Once the Covid situation allows it again and then I passed Paris and there's a little bit more going on and They are definitely happy to meet one person who some of you might know quite well from our online platforms All or bonjour We are in Sartreville now, which many of you might have heard from the precious plastic Sartreville, which is run by Nicola And now we're going to meet him Hello, I'm Nicolas and this is Pépé Sartreville, recycler moi and welcome to my company Dubois Reception So here we went material for events and we have started the precious plastic workshop here Almost four years ago And the main aim here is to develop some craftsmanship and raise awareness to different types of products Here is our last machine Built by Landry Le recycler fou, which is a version 4 extrusion machine But we at the moment use it for these three products And big up to Villeneuve who really highly inspired us into trying to mimic this technique Which is quite complicated to be honest This is the rest of the workshop where we mainly do compression With the one and two heavens and the compression difference This is our modified This is our shredder, but we've made all the framework with wood I discovered the precious plastic project more or less four years ago and And It really flashed into my head that we had to do something So here in the business we started to While we wanted to recycle everything we have so the pallet wrap is what we call LLPBPE so linear low density polyethylene and It has no additives in it, so as you will see right after Super super Yeah, so that's the setup and with that Nikola and his team have been using their free time to Experiment like a lot really started out with And then we continued making molds a bit more let's say complicated molding silicone and You can really take the print of whatever the object you want We wanted to experiment how we could fuse different plastic products together as mold melted We just created a little pattern. So it was yogurt the orange and white But more as a compression beam Everything is only fused with a heat gun try to not sue So pretty inspiring all the things they learned just in the free time when they didn't have to work So you could say that Nikola kind of became a precious plastic expert But what makes this even more valuable is that he's all in for sharing everything he learns with the community Also, what's cool is I've been able to help a lot of people To go through the struggles I went through the whole French community is Super active and share information on why that happens how to go through this problem and so on so Yeah, I'm happy to to be able to help others not lose so much time and Not understand what's going on. Yeah, so this guy has been with us for four years and always kind of been around So Thank you so much for that. It's really valuable to have people like that As an extension of our team and before leaving Paris. There was one other workspace. I managed to visit. So let's have a quick look Now we are visiting Attelie Samji who just started not so long ago and it's in the middle of Paris Pretty central. Yeah, let's see Bonjour So welcome to Attelie Samji. Welcome to our workshop. This is basically the mold. We are working with it now And then you can come to the main parts This is all the machines that we have the shredder two injection machines our oven and then you find our Let's say our main piece. It's an extrusion machine based on the V4 which works perfectly and Help us to make a lot of brick so We were looking for a project that makes sense and so we discovered precious plastic and we didn't think for long we We say let's go the exhibition was entitled Introduction to the brick we have people that have been really Trusted by the exhibition. I think we will keep the focus on the brick as I was saying we want to improve it and We want to be able to do it better and faster But also doing some research and developments on other products on the side Well, first of all It would be thank you for the community because we wouldn't be here without you. So thanks a lot And I'm really happy to see that in France. We have like we have a squad again that is forming and with people that know us like Nicola de Sartreville Like Landry that I was talking before Lola Kepaceus in war Yeah, there is many many people that also don't know that they are going to reunite for the same fight And yeah, too. I mean this is the game we want to play we want to work as a community And let's hope we will find a way to get a big squad ready to fight the plastic. Yeah nice Yeah Nice, so it's always fun to see how different workspaces evolve and how they look like and what they do And quite powerful to meet them in person as I think it creates a much stronger network within the community So I can highly recommend that way of traveling using the map To find the people and connect to each other exchange share and learn from each other In real life and as you might have noticed the French community is quite a strong and active one already And many of them are now gathering to strengthen their connections and And build up something very strong as a community So precious plastic to Renval de Loire organized a weekend where many of the French precious plastic workspaces met and Worked out a plan to work together They had a full schedule with different sessions to figure out and decide on values Directions and a mission for the community organization to push so local solutions for the plastic problem It was a lot of talking brainstorming and discussing around different questions to work out and Built the foundations for a strong and fruitful network while also just getting to know each other have delicious food And a taste of our famous music Connecting just as I think this is something very interesting and exciting to see how this evolves and what we can learn as a global community from that as Projects like precious plastic really also depend on the surrounding on your local community Let's see how that goes and what we can learn from it. Okay enough for now about France This month we also reached a total of 100,000 euros an hour patreon account and we've been there for three and a half years but it is quite a milestone and It's cool to think about how all these little two euros a month donations do add up to such a big support So thank you very much for sticking with us and being part of this huge Contribution and we are also putting more effort now into involving our patrons like showing more what's going on behind the scenes and involving you in discussions and Decisions like at the moment. We are running a series of one army articles sharing design Explorations and asking for feedback to shape this platform together to empower Sustainable open source projects. So yeah, if you want to see more what's going on behind the scenes And are interested in getting involved in those kind of conversations You know where to find us and we are always happy to see our army Growing, I guess that's it for this month. Take care of yourselves and of others and of everything Yeah, see you next month. Yeah, come in the monthly news Yes See you next month You