 Welcome to Monday news number 41 as always a bit quick rough and dark We're currently live from Eindhoven, which is the biggest bowling city in the world No, no the most people playing bowling No, just a random sculpture of bowling pins. I don't know why anyway So we got kicked out of our workspace and we're actually now leaving Eindhoven city But also really leaving the Netherlands to move our workspace and this is kind of a big thing I mean my entire life. I'm 31. I've lived in this region Around the city in a 20 kilometer radius So I had my first workspace in an old butcher shop My second one in Helmond and the old post office and in the recent years here in Eindhoven in an old car factory So I've always been around in this area. I know all the places. So I figured before I'll go Let me show you the best things about this place so that if you ever for some reason end up in this place Maybe because of a bowling event, you know where to go. So let me show you Yeah, the scrap yard and over here you can really find a lot of very useful things, but very properly sorted There's a super cool windmill which I always think if you see that one in Amsterdam It's gonna be super busy tourists everywhere to pay 20 euro and here you can just walk in buy your flower And they mill it for you when the wind is blowing There's a big blueberry farm where you can pick your own blueberries in july and august so almost there And over there is the main city center with all the shops and stuff like that But what is way more interesting is that there's always water here. I know where it's coming from, but it's always there Fascinating so originally Philips was made in this city, you know from all the electronics parts and products Mr. Phillips right there. He started it But nowadays it's all outsourced to China But in the old days a lot of people used to work here in factories including my own grandpa used to work for Philips But now you have a lot of old empty Factories so here you have some of these old factories and now people are living in there. Let me show you Hey cool And the best thing about this area is this place right here where they sell the best dark Chocolate ice cream and it's vegan and it's the darkest one you will ever have We have a bicycle path And it glows in the dark. They have a very nice bouldering gym so you can go climbing Now I see what you're thinking you're in the Netherlands Dave. Why do you do climbing? There are no mountains Well, think different boom one of the biggest mountains in the south of the Netherlands right there So here we are one of the highest points of the region 60 meters above sea level And fun fact this is actually not a mountain It's a man-made hill because underneath all of this there's trash This used to be a landfill in the 80s Just like you see them nowadays in Asia or Africa a place to dump our trash But at some point we didn't like it anymore and we realized we prefer to see grass So we sort of covered it up and now it is Yeah, sort of like a nice hill because we don't like to look at trash So nowadays we just burn it or we send it to Asia or Africa that we don't have to take care of it Yeah, we prefer to play golf And they have these things which are very Dutch they contain snacks So you put in some coins open it up and take a disgusting thing out But what not many people know is you also have an underground version The Ugenaaltje trekken which means you go diagonal and take a snack out of every box and you eat them all It's very disgusting. So you probably end up throwing up somewhere in this party street And yeah, then the night is completed. I mean it's not a good tip, but it's culture So these are basically all the tips and tricks on Eindhoven But there's one last place I want to show you guys and it's a bakery from a guy called Ditto And he used to give us her bread for free his leftover bread during your development of version 4 and It's probably the best bread in Eindhoven And I want to show you guys this bakery and ask him why he did that. So let's check it out Okay Could you explain a bit about your bakery and maybe how he started so How did it start I Was working at Philips design as a designer who said they need designing lights luminaires for outdoor lighting streets and for stadiums And that was a very nice job and it is for 19 years in total before we signed but three years before I quit I started baking home and bread at home and First just one bread and that's I wanted to find out how to do it better and one thing came another and I Did a half a year later. I was baking bread for friends and people who got to know my bread Every Thursday I would make dough Friday, which was my day off at Philips. I would bake the bread in my homemade stone fired oven and They could pick up the better Friday afternoon, and I like it so much. Let's let's ride a business plan. Maybe I can Professional so now you're a professional baker Could you explain something about your breath like do you use the ingredients you use or where they come from or is it? Why is it different than Albertine blood? Yeah, so The bread we make is it's a sourdough bread. So we don't use yeast commercial yeast sourdough is like a natural yeasting process and All our ingredients are organic and like normally in bread. There's like five six Eight ingredients even more sometimes and in our bread at the street, which is water flour and salt So that's how we bake the bread and we don't think that's more is necessary But we put more time in it and more effort Still create very nice bread and time a lot of time. So our bread's all proof overnight This gives them a very good cross and makes them easier to digest and more tasteful Do you think you have the best bread of Eindhoven sure? So we always got bread from you or if we if we came at least How was that for you is it nice good is bad Because the problem with baking is you don't bake on demand So you try to estimate how much bread you need for a day, but doesn't always turn out exactly right When it's rainy, for example Also because we bake we start baking like two days in Before we start planning what we bake for two days later So we cannot really we're not flexible when the weather changes So sometimes we have bread left over and it's really nice if it goes to a place where people can really need it and Yeah, and that way I was also supporting precious plastics of course because they weren't volunteers So there's so much budget and it's nice if It doesn't cost me anything actually And then what do you do if your bread if we wouldn't take it what where does it go is it? So that's right Okay And you can bring it to this homeless shelter or something where it doesn't work and that doesn't work so this is the food so bank for example and They want you to bring it wrap it in plastic label it Seal it and everything and you have to bring it After 12 hours of working bakery, I don't want to go to the Home the shelter to bring the bread. I was giving it to salvation army for a while They started complaining that they had to slice the bread themselves Okay, yeah, so yeah, sometimes people ask for it like when homeless people come here just by themselves and they ask for a bread Of course they get it Anything you want to mention to the YouTube world YouTube world. Yes All right, so those are all the highlights of Eindhoven Now I have some closure and I can leave Because I'm gonna focus big time on project comp in the coming months and in fresh plastic We have a very solid team that actually came from version 4 so some people stick around They're actually gonna fully focus on starter kits for the time being so this is something we released actually this month It's a new thing because a lot of people always ask us can you set up a workspace for me? But we never really do that and but we figured maybe we should provide that service So from now on you can go to the website and select the starter kit and actually just buy it And we'll take care of it. We fully make it and we use the worldwide community of machine builders and people to actually set it up So it's a very exciting new feature So I would say go to the website to check it out and the team itself is actually gonna go work from France because our old Workspace manager Jan he had his old workspace available there and he said you can come and work here super nice So they drove back up for the two-times Tools from precious plastic and now installing the workspace and it's a very cool place So you have a look welcome to the new precious plastic work space in France The workspace is located in the building behind me and we have a nice river over there But yeah, we're still unpacking so there's no much to see yet, but more coming soon for now Let's go with cat for the community news Hey Welcome to the new community news reported from cat this time life from one of our patreon supporters houses Aka my mom. Thank you, mommy. Okay. Let's dive right into it First a quick update on the platforms. We have two new how-tos one from Pacific beauty about making all sorts of beam furniture for outdoors and Zero plastics Australia shared how they make plastic sheets with a very low budget and simple technique For everyone who is not on Instagram We also shared these super cool watches from Dover studio talked about Thomas and Mark from our v4 team starting their sheet press production and The super cool storage system from Björn from Iceland. So yeah cool stuff then very exciting Sheet presses are coming So slowly we see the v4 sheet sheet presses popping up here and there in Iceland and Germany and Australia in South Korea and Maybe the first one in action in the Netherlands from fiction factory So yeah looking forward to seeing Some beautiful sheet material and products coming if you're building the sheet press or any of the other machines Please do share when you're done and let us know how everything went and if it was doable or what was challenging So that we can take this and learn and further improve and find modifications as a community And probably the best place for that is our discord So as you probably know, we've been slowly shifting from the forums to the discord as a place for the community to Connect exchange and discuss ideas and help each other and it definitely has its advantages and Is a very informative and and inspiring place for the community But we are also still figuring out how it can best serve the community's Topics and needs. Yeah, and there is a lot of space for improvement Thank you for everyone who's contributing and sharing so much and huge. Thank you for Nick Dave and Frederick our moderators who are really helping now to structure and improve and Maintain the discord so that it can be the most Useful as possible for the community and if you have any ideas or want to help with the discord Please let us know as just shoot us shoot us a message and then we can take it from there And finally we also shared the results from our impact survey we did in March So here a few of them a total of 376,176 kilograms of plastic was recycled last year which per workspace accounts to Nearly one ton of plastic recycled in that year on average a precious plastic works base has a team of five people one third of them being women and One person on average Being full-time and getting a salary the yearly revenue was over 2.1 million euros which for each work space would be 606 euros per month 10% of all surveyed workspaces are profitable and 21% are financially sustainable here. It might be interesting to mention that Nearly half of the work space has just started less than a year ago So they might still be in kind of a setup phase There are a lot more numbers on the web page we created for the impact survey So if you're into numbers check it out Having a kind of overview and being in touch with a lot of people from the community I would personally say that there's certainly much more going on and there's many more machines many more Workspaces and people involved in plastic recycled but it is a good reference to get as information from the community and provided some valuable information for us which helps us to get an idea and or a better idea and Also to see where we can improve To increase this impact we can have as a community. So yeah, track your numbers and work to come That's it for now. Take care of yourself. Take care of others and see you next month