 Welcome to Monday news number 44. Alright so this month we put our project camp Academy online which is basically going to be the main place where we put all our information so people can learn from it. A bit the same as what we did with pressure plastic and project camp is just getting started so there isn't that much yet but this would be and will become the main place in the future and but for now we started off by releasing some research videos so we went out to a few communities ourselves around the world to understand what they're doing and learn from their experiences. So the first one was in Tamera in Portugal we released this video this month and also one in Aravil in India also a great community and we also have this section where we share more documentaries that we didn't make ourselves but we do think are worth watching so this month I actually watch Spaceship Earth which I would recommend to watch it's about this group of people that end 80s begin 90s started living in what they call a biosphere so it's sort of a closed space and see if they can survive there I think back then already with the intention like what if we would live on Mars but also to just see if we can create our own little ecosystem I guess it didn't really work out as they intended and it did get a lot of criticism but it would say very valuable information and I love to learn from so completely other news but it also happened is that Fairphone released a new smartphone and Fairphone makes usually phones that are sourced with ethical materials but they also do understand the value of keeping your phone longer that it reduces the amount of waste and I would say of all the phones in the world this one is probably the closest to modularity or sort of something that phone blocks had in mind as a project because what they did now is with their new model is that you can buy a new module of the camera and the speaker which sort of upgrades your whole phone so in a way the new model isn't a completely new phone with all the components it's really only the hardware that you need to upgrade and I think this is a great step by slowly integrating more modularity on electronics and I guess they're really showing that it's possible obviously still a long way to go and it's just a few components but very hopeful and very impressive that they're still continue to push this topic and they also actually I think the only phone on iFixit that has a 10 out of 10 repairability score which is kind of impressive. Talking about phones another cool documentary released this month is called the social dilemma which is all about our smartphones and how we are addicted to it and how it also really shapes society and in a way not all the information in there was new but it sums it up very well I actually also made a video about this for story hopper two years ago or something it's actually one of my favorite story hopper videos which is more about data so the bigger topic that on the one hand is very addictive designed to be addicted but also about the physical materials it still takes and the resources to store all this data that we just easily keep on making more and I do think it's a very interesting and relevant topic for us because we're so immersed into it in our daily lives I mean we're really going all towards this digital world even more with COVID so I think it's good to be aware of the consequences of this so talking about story hopper and I have a lot of connections this time I also made this video a while ago of a storage system based on industrial crates that you can store your stuff and I also shared the drawings online and this month actually found a picture of fresh plastic in Portugal that replicated it and used it to store their own stuff and they actually also made a little tweak to it that they can store their shredded plastic always interesting to see which so before we continue actually I have a question for you guys so I've been making these monthly news now for almost three years and it's fun but also I guess after a while I mean so I wonder what you guys actually like to see is it good as it is or do you like to see more the community updates or the updates from us in the team or more news in general in the world like new documentaries that are released I guess in general I could use some inspiration so if you have any good formats interesting YouTube videos out there or suggestions like these make sure to post them in the comments below so I can check them out and spice things up so Q Fosang from China actually has been producing quite a bunch of shredders as he shares them in the discord and he now actually made a new version of it again it's always interesting to see what the community makes but a very popular topic now is also the sheet press you see more and more people building them and also tweaking them and hacking them or improving them and this is always where it gets very interesting for us so for instance here sheep on wheels from Belgium they made some sort of control panel to automate it I'm not really sure what they're doing but it looks very promising and I've actually also been playing more with laser cutting and I think water cutting to see what you can do with the sheets and what kind of shapes you can cut out don't forget the how-to and fiction factory from Amsterdam also built the sheet press but they also released a how-to with all the improvement hacks and things they did different so you can download the 3d models bill of materials and this is always where it gets very interesting to work with the community to really learn from each other because product development is just always ongoing things can always be improved so currently the precious plastic team in France is actually looking into the washing system and how can we improve that and here's a little clip of Rory explaining what he's working on so some of you may have noticed on a previous monthly news Lewis and I have been working on a project to develop a collecting, sorting, washing and shredding system and on our how-tos that precious plastic have been working on designing a washing system for dirty plastics for the last month I have been in France working on refining that design and hopefully coming to a good conclusion that we can upload and document in the future so with this system we have a large tank reserve tank with all the water for the whole system the whole thing is closed so no micro plastics end up leaching out we have a little Arduino and control box to automate things a little bit easier this one is the pre-wash so this is where the dirty plastics go in and hopefully cleaner plastics are removed and this is a pressure washer and then we go on to the next stage which will be shredding the plastic and then once that plastic is shredded finally it's put in a bag and put in the washing machine to be cleaned and hopefully giving you a good clean plastic that you can use for your products so this is what we have now and we'll continue to update you on the progress and release all the information in the near future and this month Jason also released his Kickstarter for a skateboard we actually have one here so he's been working a few years to make skateboards from recycled plastic and he really wanted to make a deck that can perform that can do olleys and flips which I would say is very new to the world of skateboard and recycled plastic but he actually made a nice detailed Kickstarter campaign so here's a little clip of it I'm Jason co-founder of design and art collective mandin I've invented a way to make skateboard decks from 100% recycled plastic and I'm sharing them open source I'm making a download kit containing all the information people need to be able to produce them themselves and I'm publishing it online for free for free yeah man for free it's called open source I'll explain a bit later this campaign not only gives you an opportunity to get your hands on one of the very first batch of decks to ever be sold it also gives you an opportunity to support plastic recyclers all over the world by giving them a functional new product they can make from plastic waste for free but yeah go make sure to check it out and support this guy he's a nice guy talking about nice guys here's a picture of Manduku that works in the workspace we set up in Kenya a few years ago and he's also there with extrusion machine and I would say it's kind of rough that extrusion machine compared to the standards we have now and the knowledge we have because the motor is very slow and the materials from there are kind of yeah not super high quality and for some reason he manages to make this very consistent threat out of it I really don't know how he does it I wouldn't be able to do it and every now and then he sends some pictures of baskets he weaves and he's also pushing always the limits of the material to see what else you could do with it so here you can see him in his house where he made a fence out of it by just carefully weaving it so you can use it for chickens or goats to keep them away hi I know impressive I haven't tested it but it looks impressive so this month we also did a few updates to our bazaar so you can now see with the listing in which country it's being sold and also the person that is selling it we've also added a filter so you can select on the distance so you can find products more locally and we also improved our categories on the product section so you can find better a type of product you have in mind and I would highly recommend to check out the bazaar again I mean it's been a line for a few years but in the recent period a lot of new cool listings came up there like furniture, lightning, small items, bowls and you can all buy them and I think people don't realize how powerful that tool is because by buying something there you directly support the maker on the other side of the world working on these topics because in the one end you support them financially by giving them money but also more motivational by buying their products and they realized they actually created something that other people like so yeah I would highly recommend when Christmas is coming or a birthday is coming up or you need something to just have a look on the bazaar and while you're at it also make sure to have a critical look at it and give us feedback if you think things could be improved or don't work properly because we're always looking into improving that place for the community now I'm going to show you one of those makers who's actually been very active in the precious plastic universe very dedicated guys been doing it for years by building and selling machines and his name is Landry he's from France this is what he looks like and he actually also came to the Netherlands to help out version 4 to develop this pro shredder and actually I think on a second day or something when he came his hand got stuck into the lathe and it broke so he went to the hospital put some plaster in it and I think even the next day already he was back working I'm a very dedicated guy and he's now looking into the sea certification of the machines to really step it up one more notch and cat dropped by in his workspace in France so he's going to give you a tour hello I'm Landry from France and I have created the recycler foods like the crazy recycler in the little countryside in Vendee so welcome here we make machine for precious plastic so we have a workspace for make machine so there are some tools like a lathe a little one different part for make machine and this is a workspace and here we make a different machine so extrusion v4 shredder v4 shredder v3 yeah different machine for a different person I have started 2017 the project with my first shredder here I can show you so that it was my first one it still worked little rusty but but it works very good and also my first extrusion machine on the other side and injection just here it still works very good we use it a lot for different tests and stuff like that but now we make machine so I can show you the extrusion v4 so I have do some modification on the precious plastic one I have changed for example this design for but it is easy to assembly and I work a lot on the C certification this type of machine so right now we have the certification of the on this extrusion on the v4 shredder so here we are some machine ready to be shipped so that it's the extrusion v4 finish C certification so we just need to put some stickers on it before be shipping be shipped I'm so french almost all the parts are from France on from my place place I work with different workspace around maximum 20 kilometers for arrive to have something very ecologic I am modified the hopper it's stainless steel I am modified with a grill on for don't put your finger on for put it more safety and when it's empty and you want to change your prediction you just need to up empty it on back and also I have but this protection here on here on here for protect of the heater so yeah I'm so proud of this machine the C certification is complicated to understand but the the goal the goal is to if you want to kill you with this machine I need to make it for you can't kill you inside but we try to make it certified by yourself it's possible to do but it's a long process on you need to have a lot lot lot of paper for prove everything is safety so yeah it's difficult but it's not impossible to have so everybody can do it in totally I have made like 30 machine 10 extrusion machine a lot of shredder v-free shredder injection and yeah I have sold the machine in Madagascar India Canada also Canada French Canada and that all after it's everything go to France yeah I just start to receive a little salary but it's difficult but yeah no no I can live with the prediction of machine a lot of people give us plastic so we won't do something with it and not just make machine but try to recycling the world thank you very much thank you all right that was it for now thanks for watching again this monthly news episode yeah don't forget to comment below suggestions or feedback or any inspiration youtube videos that I have something to watch autumn is coming you know rainy days so yeah thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next monthly news