 Welcome to monthly news 29 and it is warm so this month we have two video makers in the team and they are very funny They really like to make Welcome to monthly news number 29 So apparently Dave is too busy to make these videos So yeah, he asked us. Hey, Lucia Phillip. Do you want to take over the monthly news? And we said what should we do and he said you can go really crazy. So I guess we can do whatever we want Okay, okay, maybe not but this past month. We've been hard at work grinding making plans and Battling the heat But we did also have a really nice concert here in the workspace We also released two new pilot projects one we made a big massive table for Jaden Smith this guy And one we went to the Maldives and set up an ocean plastic research center Our team and Paul made some really cool research on how to recycle degraded ocean plastic We're currently in the Maldives and we're going to show people how to recycle plastic in our precious plastic shipping container You can find links to all of this down in the description also this guy Contributed on github on our new community platform we're building and that's really really appreciated Hey Nico Nico Phillip talking. What do we need? We also had a lot of newcomers this month. Hi, my name is Alex Michael Rory Jimmy Leon Lucy Nicole. Oh, yeah Last week we had a lot of designers here doing the plastic for good challenge and Mattia is gonna talk to you more about that right now All right, Phillip. Yeah, thank you. As you said for the past five days We've been working here on the plastic for good challenge, which is a collaboration between precious plastic and distributed design marketplace And as I said for the past five really really really hot days We've been working here with 15 designers from all over the world and we've given them 20 sheets from our new sheet press as well as 50 beams from our new extrusion machine And we let them play around and see where they would take plastic recycling So I'm now gonna show you a few projects to see what they came up with It's good one All right, so we're here with Nicholas from Austria and you want to tell a bit about yourself and what you've been working on for the past five days I'm an architect from Vienna and in Austria developed a building system that enables almost all people to make multi-storey buildings and We primarily worked with wood and sustainable materials and now the last five days I had the chance to Work with plastics that have been reused and upcycled and these are tiles for Building skins it could be either for roof but also for wall or for something in between and we hope it's very stable I can show you also it's really like I Think it could Like it doesn't in some cases. It doesn't even need a Substruction so I can really envision how on a bigger scale it could look incredible and really serve in the longer run because it is Sturdy, right and strong. I think it could really last for many decades. Well, I will leave you some plans so you can continue Fantastic, thank you very much All right, so here we are with the manuele from Italy Hello, and maybe you want to tell us a bit what you've been working on and yeah what we have in front of us Yes, my team and me wanted to work with Children toys so we fell in love with the idea of designing a rocking children toy because it's Kind of a classical toy, you know I think I like the combination of wood and plastic and it really looks like a proper finished product Yes, you can see that this is a natural green material and this is an artificial one Of course because it's plastic but even if it's a recycled material It looks great and the combination of the two is amazing and and and was it easy to get to understand the material get to know High work. Of course we had to make a few tries, but once we got the Process right it was quite easy to work with Of course, you have to make some fixings and to adjust everything to the material because of course It's not good and it has different properties from other materials and you don't want to To get toxic films even so but once you get it, it's really cool to work with Manuele fantastic work. Yeah, thank you And yeah, here we are with Damien from France, I guess exactly him and his team they've been working on Joinery options for plastic and I'm gonna let you introduce more what you've been working on in the last week So we started wondering what like kind of like modular things were to do with Plastic and so we quickly came to the question of the joints We started with like quite simple Technique to have like a rail and that could be able to put many different things Also during the week we started like to investigate how we could actually bend plastic to have like Like this kind of like orthogonal junctions I think this option for me is incredible in its simplicity and yeah, and the potentials connected these are infinite in my opinion because it's so simple and really sort of exploits the Potentials of plastic at its most because you couldn't do this with woods Couldn't do this with metal unless you have massive machines. Yeah, I think this is an amazing Bit of knowledge right here and technique that can be shared with the world Fantastic seems like you guys been busy for the last five days. Yes, but yeah, super nice Thank you very much. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. All right. That's it for a plastic for good challenge If you want to know more about the project check the link below and now back to cut for our community news Yo, it's Kat again, and I am happy to present you some more news from the community We will start with Surin and friends also called plasticpreneur from Austria They put some machines on the bazaar which have a wooden and disassembleable frame So that makes them super lightweight and practical to transport and they develop these machines together with a Pro like professional recycling machine manufacturer. So super good quality stuff KTH alumnia working on a solar thermal injection molder which is literally a very powerful tool to make the machines run on free and clean energy and They also want to share their outcome open source So we are looking forward to that and we know that there are more people working on solar upgrades for the machines So, yeah, we are very much looking forward to seeing more outcomes for that Lucy the off-cut Queen is working with acrylic glass offcuts which are a big waste material of design offices and bigger companies and she made a cool video on how she got started with that and how she processes the offcuts to valuable materials and cool products and Our team member Thomas also made a very cool video about his project in Panama where he helped setting up a fresh plastic workspace And for that project he also developed a mold for a very cool plate, which is made with the injection machine You can find those videos and more in our community channel Which we created to share all the videos created from the community So another cool thing is that we are actually just working on the tool on our websites To make it easier for everyone to document their processes and share them with the community So if you have anything or see anything which you would like to share or have shared Let us know and get in touch with us and we can explain to you how it's done and help you in that process Hey there next month we're gonna do a Q&A with the people here from the workspace So if you have any questions like whatever you want feel free to comment down below here on YouTube and we will do our best to answer them You will slow there when the signs like Welcome to monthly news number 29. 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