 yeah so we're on the about to leave Istanbul to go to Mali yeah it's a little broader they've got this granola that's been smelling a lot it's been fasting that's the day we know yeah nice okay cool welcome to monthly news number 24 so we're currently in Mali the capital city of the Maldives and this doesn't really look like how you imagine the Maldives I guess it's like this big one island with a lot of concrete buildings scooters sorry yeah and actually around 400,000 people live on this island which is quite a lot and what is actually interesting about living on an island is that you're isolated from the rest of the world so you kind of need to be quite thoughtful but the resources you have because everything needs to be imported and exported and this gives a few interesting things let me show you so here they have old jerry cans where they grow their plants so you don't always need to recycle the plastic sometimes you can just reuse it by cutting a few things even old water bottles an old desk chair transformed into a swing and to hold the paint you don't buy a new paint container you just use an old water bottle now recycling and reusing stuff is good to minimize the resources you use but what's even better is to make sure you don't need it in the first place how much? 3 oh no plastic it's okay no plastic no plastic and shops sell bolts and nuts and bulk reducing the amount of packaging but not everything is done very resourceful here where are we going today guys? telephushy where is telephushy jerry? one big pile of rubbish wow that's negative man it's a pile of resources one big pile of precious material get your filthy words out of here jerry yeah this one big island is a bit messy here all the waste from the city is dumped and burned and many of it could be recycled but not in this way actually made a video about this a few years ago watch the link below if you want to see and they also have all this plastic flowing in from the ocean and people started consuming a lot of packaging like in any other capitalistic system out there in the world and that's the main reason why we're here to see if we can do something about it or use our knowledge about recycling to help people and educate them to reduce the amount of plastic waste they make so together with Parle for the oceans we did a collaboration and shipped our recycling workspace container here and we're now showing people how to do it together with jerry and charlotte hi here's a snack it's coconut sugar in the coming days we're going to work here in this container to educate people how to recycle plastic and... they need your help guys everybody okay? yeah this doesn't work to do we'll make a proper detailed video about this whole pile of project later on so stay tuned for that one right so now back to the cold windy freezing wet workspace in the Netherlands where Parle is going to show you a futuristic project we're doing you see what would the future of plastic look like and how can we make it more sustainable it's very experimental but it's just the first tiny step towards it hey guys it's paul so at precious plastic our main focus is plastic recycling but we're also interested in alternative materials that could be used in the future to replace plastic altogether so to be honest marina have been spending a lot of time researching different materials and methods to see what kind of applications they could potentially have could you guys tell us a bit about what you've been working on and why you're interested in it so we spent the last few months with some basic material research into biodegradable materials because our main focus is to get solutions for places where we use single use plastics so like festivals, to-go containers certain events because we kind of came to the conclusion that we really we can try to change people's behavior about plastics and to collect it better and recycle but I don't know maybe we lost a little hope so we think it's better to give them biodegradable materials so if they throw them away or the beads put them in the sand that they at least won't harm the environment can you guys show us a little bit of what you've been working with how the results are with the different materials you're using sure so those two first materials that we decided to focus on are potato peels nice so we thought that it would be a good starting point to choose something accessible and pretty cheap and sort of a waste stream because both potato peels so potato peels are basically a waste stream from potato to potato industry and wheat bran is a byproduct from from the flour industry and what have you been making with this stuff so here we were trying out different processes so one good thing about potatoes is that there is enough starch in potato skins that could make material pretty hard so this board was made like with a pretty low tech process pressing and heating it so it's pretty hard and it doesn't really have anything except potato peels, some water and I think some extra starch in this one so this was an experiment to make the material more flexible and sort of leather looking to provide some alternative to leather but it's still under development so the next one here I tried out a different process this was made with an extrusion machine from precious plastic so here is how it looks when it just comes out from the machine and this was made with the same process with the extrusion machine using the mold from pole so you hooked the extrusion machine up and injected the potato skin into this so here we also tried some other processes for potato peels which is a bone made with heat press and have you tested out using them in normal applications yeah so we tried out the wheat bran because the wheat bran is actually we are making it to be edible and can you show us how you're making these we came up with the mold that we can heat ourselves so we built this little thing with a PID controller like in all the other machines and put two hot plates from a normal kitchen stove we put them under the mold on each side one so now we can heat it up to around about 140 degrees and then once it's heated up which takes like 45 minutes and we're pressing it and every ball takes about 2 minutes and moving forward beyond just this part of the project what else are you guys hoping to accomplish here I think it would be very interesting to open this up once again and go more into more different materials so from next month on I will be working on that with different materials with other waste streams like tea leaves and coffee grounds and maybe bread if anyone knows about bioplastics from bread I would be super interested because it's a big waste stream and then hopefully at the end of version 4 we will have a bunch of different materials with one prototype product thanks so much for sharing this with us guys super exciting can't wait to see what happens in the future what other types of stuff you make hello people this is Mattia meanwhile Dave and the others are in the maladives enjoying some sun and of course carrying out the whole maladives pilot I'm left here in Eindhoven making sure that the whole crew runs smoothly to focus on the whole community organization, management that we've been going through and learning in the last few months where we manage to get 40 people in a confined space working together, living together and there's a lot of learning going into that and today I'm going to be showing you what we learned so far and what we are doing to make it better and improve it so from last September the over 40 people actually came down to help us out in here and me and Dave are not really used to working with such a big group I normally would design a website on my yellow van and Dave would be filming some videos here and there mostly on his own or with his girlfriend or a friend and last year for version 3 we had 10-12 people helping us out for 6-7 months but the jump from 10 people to over 40 people is huge and me and Dave basically lacked the necessary experience in order to plan ahead and make sure we were ready for this big change and that's what we've really been learning over the last couple of months so over the month of December me and Dave have been working day in, day out to really make sure to design a system and a plan in which people could work as efficiently as they could and we designed this little tool to achieve these goals and I'm going to show you now how it works so here is our roadmap and on the left here you can see all the macro tasks that we have ahead so you have from machine development to business testing, product design precious plastic website and so on and so forth whereas on the top you have of course all the month of the year and this gives a very tangible understanding of how much time you're going to be spending on a certain project instead it's going to happen making sure that the whole team is aligned and have an understanding of where the project is going and when and on the other side instead we have the task board or the goal boards so this is our goal board and the way that this works is basically divided into spaces in the workspace so you have the workspace you have the office, you have the cherries which are people that are doing all the small little tasks around the project so the way that this works is basically divided into big macro tasks that we outlined earlier and this includes the shredder, the washing beyond plastic extruder and so on and beneath there are the people that are going to be working on that and now going on the vertical axis you have long term goals which is what you want to achieve in your time here there's been three months, six months however you're here and then we break this down into more achievable concrete goals on a monthly basis so what are you going to achieve in the next 30 days and finally we have the weekly tasks which are much more practical achievable tasks that you want to do in the next four or five days in order to make sure that you can then achieve your monthly goal and your long term goals for version 4 so we've been working with these tools for only a couple of weeks so it's very early to say back here now in 2019 super excited to achieve their goals to work towards a very successful version 4 of pressure plastic so that's all for me for today back to you Dave in the maladies make sure to take in as much sun as you can because the air is well cold ciao Hey, it's Charlotte not Dave Matia and I am currently in the Maldives I've been helping Dave and Jerry set up the pressure plastic recycling container and I'm going to be bringing you the community news from all around the world on this beautiful island and to start off with I'm going to talk about Boat which is a workspace located in Thailand and you might know them from the really lovely colourful coasters which are injected into but Boat is now making larger objects so they are making these kind of nice hexagonal trays and circular trays and what's also nice is he's actually built a whole new bigger machine to make these bigger products so really developing the original pre-precious plastic blueprints which is nice. More machine development is a singular mass in the UK and they've just built a shredder that actually runs on no electricity and it runs purely on human power and it has a hand crank on the side and you turn the hand crank and the shredder starts to shred the plastic I really like this alternative energy approach I'm not sure how much you guys could have shred but good luck and remade crafts, they're back to making these really nice plastic pens from I think HDPE and basically what Sam does the guy behind remade crafts he gets the different coloured shredder plastics puts them into this mould makes like a big block in the oven cuts them into smaller sections and then these little sections he then turns them onto the lathe to make these really nice organic forms but what I really like about this process is that instead of the shavings from the pen just going into the bin he actually is now putting the shavings into the shredder and then using those shavings to make new pens so a complete zero waste process which is really nice and this is my favourite from this month, this is a workspace located all the way out in India and they are making plastic beams from HDPE and so they're actually using these multi coloured beams to turn them into pieces of furniture such as table tops and this new stool and they're going to be put into a restaurant in India which is really nice and lastly as we are in this beautiful place Precious Plastic Mouldies is here on this island as well Dave and Jerry are currently there and they are helping to give some advice and tips into the machines we've got a shredder oven and injection machine here and an extruder actually so we're going to go over and take a look and see what they're doing, goodbye ok so we are here in the Precious Plastic Mouldies workspace is everyone working? we've got the extruder the oven shredding some PET and the shredder which has just been taken apart by Dave and Jerry and Jerry and this is Gordon who runs the workspace don't talk to us about this mould that you've got Gordon we made this aluminium mould for plastic eggs and one of the things we tried to do here was to allow us to hold it closed without nuts and bolts so just with this simple clamp fitting there nice that holds it tight, also rather than having to screw into the bottom of the extruder or the injection moulder this one just fits over a small fitting in the bottom, cool don't know if that's how it's put on? yeah sure, nice so you've had one on each side cool and these are the eggs that you made and what was this made from? so at the resort we have a big Easter egg hunt every year and we hide plastic and wooden eggs in the jungle so the kids can find those and exchange them for the chocolate ones cool, thank you good so goodbye from Sweaty Mouldies and that's all for this month of news thank you for watching thanks to our Patreon supporters and we'll be back next month back at 9p.m. thank you very much