 Welcome to our November news update. As always it's going to be a bit quick rough and unpolished but we don't want to lose too much time making these videos. So last month we released pressure plastic version 3 and everything is online but we also did an offline exhibition as you can see in last month's videos and this month I want to start off with the community news because it's been a while and we have all these nice objects now here which people from over the world send for our exhibition. So for instance we have the guys from Ukraine, Zelenu, who makes these nice baskets with their extrusion machine. Impressive how they get that done. We got some PET filament from the guys in Greece. Wall clocks from... Sorry guys, I don't know how to pronounce your name. From Slovakia they also make nice bowls. We have the surfwreck scrapers from Rise and Carry in Sri Lanka. Some washpins from pressure plastic in Dresden. Lamps made in Morocco. Lamps made in UK. I'm sitting on a chair from a group in France. Coasters from Curacao and these shoe packs from Happenstans in UK. It's to put on your wall so you can hang your clothes. Now some of these makers like Happenstans uploaded video on our website to show them how they make these products so you can make them yourself as well. We're gonna show you how to make some shoe packs. And I will teach you how to make recycled plastic wall clock. But not everyone knows how to make stuff themselves. So we also have our online bazaar where all these products are on so you can buy them from these people around the world. So I would highly encourage to have a look and if you can buy something because you directly support all these people that want to start recycling plastic and especially in the beginning they could really use help selling the products they made. So have a look and support them. So after we launched version 3 I won a 10,000 euro award on a television show. Online over 2,000 people added themselves to our map and wanted to start recycling plastic and we had one big final dinner with the team because we were finished. And that really surprised me. I had such a great time working with these people from all over the world which I've never seen before but they brought so much motivation energy and passion. I mean that really boosted the project forward. And that evening also precious plastic dredged the job by an Estonia with Diego. You might have seen him in the forums. This is him in real life. And now everyone left again so this place is empty just me. Yes I still need to clean up a bit. But that's kind of our precious plastic works. We gather a lot of feedback, come up with a new version, assemble a team and work very intensively and hard on making that happen. And then we just share everything online open source for free very well documented. So we are kind of done. We just need to sit back see what the community does with it and chill. We had some extra time so me, Katrina and Mathia went to Germany to protest against the coal mine. So we're currently in a coal mine which looks like this. Just a lot of santa used to be coal. So they cut down all these trees and landscape to dig it out. And they use this massive machine to get it out. And now we are all protesting against it. Because it's not good for the environment. So what's going to happen next? What's next? What's next? Yeah we're going to cross the police line and hope to not get caught. Yeah and use Mathia digging up some coal. This mine is huge. It's this chopped down white thing here on the map. And if you compare it with a city in Europe it's almost the same size. And this whole thing felt a bit weird because the police is blocking you to not enter the mine. So you face to face with them look at each other straight in the eyes. And you can see they also don't really want to be there. I mean they're just doing their job but they also don't want their children to grow up in a polluted environment. So they kind of agree with what we're doing as well. And then you realize you can't really blame individuals either. It's really about this whole system that's in place which is super difficult to to change. But for me the most motivational part was that all these people came together with their energy to take a stand and wanting to change something. And I think that's the amount of power and energy you need to really break down these systems. So it's good to see people taking a stand. And finally I asked you guys on Patreon what you would like to see in these monthly news updates. And you mentioned it would be nice to see some interviews with the team members. So here we go. And we're currently in Kenya doing some work in our workspace. And Mattia is in here so let me get him so he can answer some questions. Yeah Mattia are you up for some answers? You guys wanted some questions so here we have Mattia from Italy. Yo hello I think you've seen me before. In the monthly news updates huh? Yes. He's our Italian and he's been pretty steady working on precious plastic for over the last years. Not good in doing interviews so we'll see how this goes. Super improvised. Totally improvised. As always. So what do you like about precious plastic? It's hard not to say everything from first of all the goal. Why we're working, why we are every day waking up. I think that's the main thing that I like about precious plastic having a really precise and meaningful goal. Then of course the team and Dave, Johnny Boy, as I call him. Why? I don't know that's not relevant for the interview. Stop. As well as the community and also the whole excitement that I can feel the people working on this project. And that's a good energy. Everyone that is involved is very motivated and just wants to get it done. It's kind of the energy and the reasons why people come across us and the whole reason behind people floating around precious plastic. It gives us a lot of great energies to carry on doing what we do on a daily basis. Now the whole team for version 3 left so it's just Mattia and me who study work on the project and mainly maintaining it while being here on the spot in Kenya but also a lot is a digital side making sure the forums run that everyone finds their information making videos stuff like that. Answer in your emails. Yeah less emails guys less emails. So when you first started working or helping out with precious plastic it was smaller right the project the community was not that big yet we didn't really have well it was less evolved than it is now. So what made you come or helped with the project or how did you end up doing this little story behind I was on a quick holiday in Morocco with some friends and all for what I was really enjoying my time there but I was also really struggling with accepting all of these plastic around me all of these animals eating plastic and just people you know carry on business as usual even though they were absolutely destroying the environment around them. So on that precise moment I told myself I could not accept that anymore and from the time that I came back to Europe I sent an email to this one guy that I remember somewhere below sea level in the Netherlands working on some plastic recycling machines and I sent this email and you know then we started working together we had a Skype meeting and we discussed a few things how I could help then I went to to Helmhund meet Dave and at the time Taco was there as well and since then we're looking about we're talking about maybe May 2014 and since then we've been constantly working together improving the project improving the community growing the team growing the expectation and so we're currently in Kenya setting up the workspace and the team is arriving now sorry yeah hour late morning morning good morning so since then you've been working steadily on fresh plastic right yeah well I mean so in the beginning it was I was working on precious plastic mainly on my free time meaning weekends and during the night as I was working freelance on my web web design job mainly and then more lately I really dedicated my entire my full life to precious plastic it's been evolving and now it's basically my life really so yeah that's what gets me here in Kisi and you know what wakes me up in the morning so where do you live well it's kind of a tough question especially in border control I live in a van so I've been living in a van for the past two years kind of loving it and it's a nice one yeah I can see Dave living in a van in the next year or so maybe what do you not like about fresh plastic that's that's a tough one yeah I don't think there's anything that I don't like about precious plastic also because almost nothing is imposed so you know if there's anything that I don't particularly share or enjoy or like we always discuss and we and we we go through it and we really see why I don't like it and how we can change it and maybe you know he explained why something is in that going in that direction and then it's kind of you know smoothens out and and I don't think I can I can name anything that I don't like in precious plastic so far I think we also like to pivot as well right something is not nice then it probably takes you a lot of energy to do it so we try to just go in a rather other direction so we just do the things you want to do yeah because you probably particularly helps the fact that we are completely independent very poor but fully independent so that we don't have any companies or you know some CEO giving us directions and imposing us their own vision of how the project should work on their own needs it's really just what you know we see as the most efficient way to solve this plastic problem lightweight question what's your favorite food I love all food man now good food can't ask not that there's no food in the Netherlands no no no anything you want to say to the community left turn yeah keep on rocking it's great to be part of this community you know the goal might seem very far but if we all work together you know one day you know the right solution might come up from one of you maybe maybe from us maybe from someone here in Kisi who knows it's just important that we all working towards this one goal yeah and yeah thanks for supporting so you know you helping Dave but you're also helping me you're helping these guys here and yeah I want to take this opportunity to really thanks every one of you that supporting on patreon but also you know just sharing the project liking it really feeling giving us the motivation to go on working every day so for us it's very important to have this big propulsion force behind us that really you know gives us the strength every day to wake up and work 15 hour a day and really make this come together and and come to life really so thanks for all the support so far and keep on going yeah see you next time see you later