 a monthly news February 2018 start off with a clip from Matia he's currently in Brazil visiting precious plastic. Yo Dave, how's it going? So today I'm in Rio de Janeiro and I came to the IED University to meet with Bruno and to check out on his course at these universities trying to teach students how to work with the machines and create a small little project in a favela here in Rio trying to tackle a number of issues between others, create a better livelihood for kids in the slum and teaching them how to recycle plastic with precious plastic. You could also saw him in last month's update in Colombia and the main reason he's in South America is because we're doing a pilot project in Chile in March kind of same thing as we did in Kenya and he figured I'll just go a bit earlier because it's nice and I still had some stuff to finish here but now I'm ready. Yeah so currently in Chile it's so nice and warm here compared to the cool workspace in the Netherlands. Yeah so I'm currently in the capital city Santiago in some sort of park I'm not exactly sure where I am precisely because I just arrived yesterday so I still need to figure out some spots so if you happen to know some nice places to visit let me know. I was actually thinking of visiting a lithium mine you know the stuff they use for batteries they're pretty big here in Chile but I'm not sure if you can actually get in so if you know anyone let me know. So I'm going to stick around for a few weeks and then I'll make my way down south where we're going to set up the pilot project and one thing I really wanted to finish was making some new story hopper videos season two and these are topics which are super complex and I've been in my head for a long time I was actually going back in the files and I saw recorded some elements back in 2013 I mean it's been in my head that entire time it's weird and the topics are quite complex because they all address these problems that are very much embedded in systems so hard to visualize but also very complex so it took a while before I could really narrow down what's actually the problem and what to do about it and the first one that is ready is called the dark side of data well I think it's ready I'm not sure because I've been looking at it for a long time I can't really tell anymore where the stuff makes sense or doesn't so I'm going to try something new so I'm going to share the rough cut on patreon so you can give some comments or say tell me what something is just doesn't make sense don't share this video it's just for you guys to give feedback and to tell me whether I'm going nuts or not so let me know so I was looking on the pressure plastic map here in Santiago quite active cool so send a few messages out and we're going to one I just finished my water but I don't want to buy a plastic stupid bottle so hopefully he has some water should be here hey guys my name is Christian Carlos who's that camera fear this is our workshop in Santiago Chile we are dedicated last year to sell precious plastic machines patent pending with precious plastic authorization so this is the first machines shredder machine and over machine to travel this week to Iquique city in in the north of Chile with serious water problems and plastic problems okay show us your place this is my place this is the table come on yeah that looks like a shredder monster shredder this is the first thing to to try the plastic you can see this switch may look safe and this is the other miss your workspace yes the compression machine pressure machine don't believe me when I do because in my family don't want to do what plastic yeah I want to work you know yeah really want to be working on this because I saw a lot of big massive problem so why did they say why did they doubt because they I think they see this way it's more it's more safe if I work with mining probably mm-hmm but I don't like for job you mean for make a living yeah for leaving your need to base things you are wasting your time yeah I think they yeah they say you waste your time here but honestly I think I waste my time more working for the big company so for me it's a very very good challenge and it's people like this that keep me going motivated to do something about the problem even though their friends and family don't get it we kept talking like this a bit more hearing their feedback things we could improve I got some water and had it back home and finally 3-day help showed a very detailed article about how we made our iPhone mold using CNC milling so you can see all the details in there now that's not the final thing see back in the phone looks days there were some guys that developing a health care module and it could measure your blood and one of those young engineers Martin is currently studying in London and it's now working on plastic nice and with a small team they're actually prototyping a device that can measure and scan the type of plastic so whether a bottle is polypropylene poly ethylene polystyrene and I really like their project because I feel this is one of the most crucial things for plastic recycling to know which type of plastic you're working with and those devices already exist but they're not accessible I mean it's almost impossible to get your hands on one and they want to make it more accessible he made a video about it and posted in the forum so you can have a look to see what they are they could also use some help so make sure to read that topic and help them out and convince them to make it open source they're not sure yet what it should do it but no no wait don't pressure them or maybe a little alright so I'm off editing the video now where I'm sleeping which is right there in the bush bush it's a nice place so see you guys next month