 Hi, we're currently in the slums in Karibi, Nairobi, Kibera, and we're going to do the monthly news update in here. Welcome to our fourth monthly news update. As always it's going to be super quick, rough and unpolished, maybe a little bit more this time because we're currently in Kenya, so this is one big improvisation, so I hope it's all clear. And thanks for Klimbera for hosting us in his little workshop. Let me show you. So we're currently in Kenya with United Nations to set up a precious plastic pilot. We're going to do it in a city called Kisi because we share all the drawings to make these machines to recycle plastic online. But setting up a workspace requires a little bit more. You need the space, you need to collect, you need to sort out your plastic. So we want to do a few of these pilot projects around the world to learn from that and also share again all of everything what we learn into Blueprint so you can easily start your own little shop anywhere in the world. So we're currently here together with Mathia and Emile and we've got two weeks to transform this old milking shed into a precious plastic workspace and we brought our starter kits from the Netherlands with the most crucial parts and the rest we're going to source and make here locally. And here's a little clip to show you what we've been doing. So we're currently on our way to Kenya with a stack of luggage which are the precious plastic starter kit and we're going to transform this shed into a workspace. This shed, three people, two weeks, let's see what we can do. It looks like paradise. We're currently in Nairobi getting our material, here's Emile and it's impressive place. So Emile, why do you work on precious plastic? No look, there's a lot and lots and lots of fresh. So we're working with this level plastic bottle. Almost ready, painting is going on. We're collecting some plastic, Emile is looking at it. We have a guy welding the frames, that is a welding machine, that looks super safe. Shredder, slowly coming together, it's still a bit rough here and there, here we have Mathia. Hey, hello. Hello. Mathia, come together. She really wanted to be in the video. Say hi, smile to the camera. Okay. All right, you're in. Making electricity, painting logo on the wall, good job. All right, few more days and then you will see the end result in another video. So those were two super intense weeks. We set up this whole workshop, built the machines and teach locals how to work with plastic and how the machines work because we want to make sure that if we're gone they can still run the workspace without having us around. Super thanks for everyone that helped out with the project and the locals to really set it up and continue from here. We're going to make a super nice video of this whole project. For now it's just a rough version but it's going to take a while before we narrow down but that video will come soon. Now another thing I always like to do in these places is go to a landfill and usually I go to my feet or flip flops and just walking around to seeing it but this time we bought a drone and it's impressive to see if you fly up how giant these landscapes with trash are. I mean if you look around it's everywhere and I guess for us it's always a good motivation knowing that there are many of these places around the world with so much plastic trash. It's good for us to know that we're not done yet. Fresh plastic still has some work to do. Back in the Netherlands we were featured in an episode of Tegeligt where they came to a workshop to show a little bit what we're doing. If you want to see more of that it's in Dutch but it gives a glimpse of the workspace. Link below. We got a hundred thousand subscribers on YouTube. Not sure if that's really news but seems worth noting. And Joey is doing a big research on PET bottles. We're trying to find ways how to use them without fully completely shredding and remelting them. We're trying to use as much of the original shape and material as possible. Hey Joey. Hey. Could you show us your PET research? Yes. Good. So how about this PET research? We try to use the shape and the property of the bottle. So for the first step of the experimentation I tried to focus on how to get a string from the bottle. So I did different kind of plastic bottle cutter that you can easily find on YouTube, on the internet to get this kind of string. And then from this string I tried to do some basketry because I think it could be an easy way to get some strong object. And very light. So it could be interesting. In the second hand I worked with a very funny and powerful technique that I can show you. If you are ready for this, it's very simple from this bottle. I will get the bottom. Then I just have to put your shape inside. And it's a bit like vacuum forming process but in DIY. And here we are. Like a new shape. Yeah. So yeah, I tried different shape with this process to get flat stuff, more round circular stuff. So yeah, finally we managed to get this kind of thing. More like finish, could be packaging for instance. I got this phone case, which is also interesting. We started a new topic on the forum about PAT bottle. So if you have some ideas about the object we could make, feel free to share it. And we'll work on it together. Yeah, because it's a super nice technique, right? We need to find a good application. Yeah, absolutely. Super easy to do. So yeah, imagination going. So if you have any good applications or things you can do with these techniques, let us know in the forum. Link is below. So that's all the news we got this month. But there's also been a lot of happening in our community. So here we have community news. The guys from Circle Activity in South Korea, they already had a super nice workspace and building the precious plastic machines. But now they also built this mobile version where they can drive around the city making lamps with our extrusion machine. Super nice. Finbok NGO from Uganda made our injection machine from Woot. Naga Karta in Cambodia started a crowdfund to set up their little factory. And they just keep on going and building the machines one by one. So we're probably going to see more of them in the coming months. Some students in France are playing around with extrusion machine and this robot arm, trying to make bigger, more architectural shapes on a bigger scale. Interesting to see what comes out of there. I met Isabe from Denmark, went to Cape Town to teach locals how to build the machines, how it works with welding and electronics, and also how to work with plastic. And they've been making these flower pots, but looking into more molds in the future. So this is a glimpse of all the stuff that's happened in the community. If you want to see more, go to our online community and we write out little blog posts and pictures about all the projects they are doing. So that's it for this month's updates. Thanks for watching and here's a little clip. I often say thank you guys in these monthly news videos. And it might sound like it's from me, but it's actually not just me that you're supporting but the whole community behind this project or all the projects. So this is a thank you, not from me, but from everyone here. Thank you! Thank you!