 A few weeks ago we won €300.000 and we're going to use all of this money to fight the plastic waste problem Inviting passionate people from around the world to work with us to find a solution for this big plastic waste issue and it's going to be free and open source for the entire world to use Alright, so let me explain We've actually been working on this topic already for over 5 years developing machines to recycle plastic and people all over the world use them to gather local waste and turn it into something valuable and with this we created a movement, a big online community You can find all of the information on preciousplastic.com and it's cool having 200 plastic recycling workspaces around the world and a new one popping up every week However, the plastic problem is way bigger than that So we came this far thanks to people donating their money supporting us on Patreon and volunteering their time and skills to make this project happen Basically we had no budget and a very small team to execute our plans Now having €300.000 is a huge boost for the project For the first time ever we can put together a complete team of designers, developers, engineers, activists to work together Especially for this massive operation we have a brand new space right in the centre of Eindhoven, the Netherlands Dave, can you show them? This space is pretty big and there's another space here as well I haven't even seen it So we can actually use this space for one year for free So this is where we're going to develop precious plastic version 4 So yeah, that's a pretty cool gift And we're going to start next month, September 2018 Here's how we're going to do it We've got a workspace, a solid plan and budget We're going to use all of this to facilitate over 40 people from around the world All working in here on the plastic waste problem And we haven't figured it all out yet It's probably going to be chaos We need to figure out visas, places to sleep, kitchen, food, housing, toilets, materials, teams It's going to be intense We're going to go full on until either we solve the problem or we run out of money And it's probably going to be the ladder Either way it's going to be one massive open source collaboration So if you ever wanted to work on this problem, this is the time Come to the Netherlands with us and develop this version Visit next.preciousplastic.com for more information and see what we need help with And make sure to follow our monthly news to see how this massive operation unfolds Oh and to make sure to share this video around so we can gather the best possible team in the world