 Welcome to our third monthly news update. For those not familiar with the format, it's going to be super rough, quick, polished and unedited. But we don't want to spend too much time making these videos. So in the last month we've been working a lot with plastic, making a lot of new techniques to work with it, to progress it, different kinds of mold making, some bowls, heavy rocky objects and this big sheet press. We have a lot of super interesting stuff going on, but it's super experimental as well. So we're not going to show it to you yet. We're going to do a big launch in October during the Ditch Design Week in Eindhoven. That's our deadline, so mark your agenda. Also, if you happen to have a good big place where we can exhibit our stuff, let us know. Okay, so we've been working a lot with plastic, but we don't have that much plastic waste ourselves, so we needed to scale up our collection and shredding system. We're doing a lot of experiments with plastic around here, but we didn't really got enough waste ourselves to try all these experiments out, so we asked the second hand store to drop their wastes and their leftovers and stuff they get, but they can sell or broken products to send it to us every week to turn it into something else. So we just got in like a new batch of these buckets of food. The first thing we do is on different types of plastic. So here we have the polypropylene, polyethylene. It is all sorted. We shred it. Before we do that, we separate it on different colors. So the blue is with the blues, the green with the greens, and we use this to paint, basically. But the first thing is figuring out what types of plastic it is. Now during all this separating, collecting and shredding, you realize how fucking annoying it is. The company doesn't put a recycle logo on the bottom of their products. I mean it's so little effort, but such a big difference at the end life of this product. Just put a logo on there. And as you might have seen on Jerry's overall, we also got precious plastic badges, together with some stickers. And these things are precious. You don't easily get them. We're going to send them out to our most active members. In the last three months since we started working on version 3, our team got them pretty big. Now with six people, we got Mathia, Emile, Matthijs, Jerry and Joey from the Netherlands, Italy, and France. And there's a guy coming from Iceland, a girl from Poland and one from Spain. Oh and if you happen to have a place to sleep for these lovely people in Helmholtz like right now, let us know. Now we do this thing where everyone cooks a decent lunch after each other, so we got these flavors from all over the world. Some nice couscous with some dacke, cheese, chickpeas and nice pepperonata straight from Italy, man. We really want to cook a decent healthy lunch every day with little waste. Designer. And I love all this food. But we need kind of a streamlined process because cooking for a big group requires some preparation. And I absolutely hate buying all this small packed plastic wrapped stuff in the supermarket. So we ordered a big amount of built bags, dried organic food, chickpeas, lentils, beans, hazelnuts, all the basics for our lunch. And once a week we go to the market to get a big amount of fresh fruits and vegetables. Oh look at this. No even a plastic bag, no one. No action at all. You see some plastic? Yeah we're almost there. Because I do believe it's important to set up your daily routine properly. I mean that's the thing you do very often. So we got our lunch covered, ready to move forward. I did a presentation in Wiesbaden in Germany, super enthusiastic crowd. Enthusiasm really keeps me motivated so thank you. And for the Dutch people, VPRO Tegelicht came to. And I uploaded a new story hopper video called Stop Printing Crap. It's basically a message for everyone with a 3D printer that they shouldn't just print everything they see on the internet because it's a lot of precious plastic material that is being wasted on junk stuff. So have a look at the video if you haven't seen it yet. I'm still working on the big picture series of story hopper with the dark side of data coming soon. It's a heavy video, it takes some time. I want to finish it next month but next month we're also heading out to Kenya for a super interesting project. But you will see more about that in next month's video. Okay so this is all the stuff we've been doing this month but obviously also a lot of stuff happened in our online community. So here we have community news. Hey community news. So this month we received a nice package from Rise and Carry in Sri Lanka. They used an injection machine to create some objects. Reuse boxes, I like it. Make this super nice wallet from plastic fused bags. I have to say it actually looks pretty amazing. And with the injection machine they made surf wax port scrapers. So you can use these things to scrape off the wax from your surf port. Feels super nice with beautiful colors. Thanks for sending Rise and Carry, super nice. We also had a nice group of students in Hong Kong that are developing the project started off building the plastic shredder. And we got this guy, Simon Clark. He's a volunteer in Ehiti and together with the locals he's building these machines in a very minimalistic way. I mean tools and resources are super limited there. And he wrote a nice article about the challenges and problems he's facing and how to improve it next time. So link below as well. And some French students built our machines and recycling plastic and making tiles and tools with it. Trying to combine different materials together. It's interesting. And Yivan from Ukraine is still pretty intensively working with his extrusion machine. He was actually one of the first ones to really build the machines and start working with it. And it's always interesting to see how he pushes the boundaries of his machines and tries out new things. Like this onion shaped looking bowl. And Trash Hero in Bali. If you don't know Trash Hero it's an organization that sets up weekly beach cleanups locally. So people can just come together and clean up the beach. Anyway they built our shredder machine and are now using it to shred that plastic. But also to create awareness of people that they can use all that plastic to create something new. And finally we're looking into providing a small update for our shredder. Trying to get a little bit more efficient and effective to work with. So we started the topic in our forum so if you have any feedback or suggestions let us know. So that was April's news update. Thanks for watching. Special thanks for everyone that's supporting us on Patreon. I mean again thanks to you guys for able to do all these stuff experiments and tryouts. So really appreciate that. And I hope to see you next month.