 and snoring in Lampas right so luckily there is a stop in between in Paris and while I was there I also bought myself a baguette and had a look at this church that burned down which actually still looked quite okay I imagine it was now it doesn't really make that much sense to take the bus actually because prices are sort of the same as a plane plane could actually be cheaper and it just takes long 32 hours in a bus compared to two hours in a plane and actually if you include layovers it takes like 40 hours which is almost two full days compared to two hours so for me the only reason to really go with a bus is that it it uses less carbon less CO2 emissions in the air but I was also thinking like is that really the case now the more I really think about it the more I know interesting it becomes because if you realize that that bus needs to transport you and move 32 hours compared to a plane just two hours and in a way it runs quite longer but it also needs quite some infrastructure to get you going there it's not just the fuel but also the roads the signs like thousand kilometer of asphalt just to get you on the other place whereas a plane only uses the air or maybe a place to land but in a way if you really want to make a calculations and not just based on the CO2 it uses but also the whole infrastructure behind it like how is that taken into account and I have to say I'm quite curious to this topic to dive into it also have other stuff on my plate but it could be an interesting story opera video but let me know if it's something you would be interested in because if you guys get motivated I get motivated so anyway now I'm going back into my bus 32 hour drive 26 left I'll see you back when I'm in Portugal in the meantime have a look at this clip from Paul and Nate we're currently doing research of ocean plastic in the Maldives thanks Dave hope you're enjoying that long bus ride to Portugal so Nate and I have been here in the Maldives for almost a couple months now and one thing we've been doing is research into plastic and how we can recycle that in a way that's effective and useful so some stuff that we've been finding a lot on the beach is these marine textiles they're made up of really small fibers that just break down really easily and get lost into the environment they're really hard to collect after that has happened so we've been doing experiments to see if we can recycle them into more durable longer-lasting forms which has actually been going pretty well and so now that we've kind of learned that we've taken ocean rope which is one of the most prevalent kinds we're finding to see if we can recycle it not just into these sample tiles but into something that's actually useful that could be used by people so we've experimented with shredding processes to see what the best way to shred the rope is and then we take this shredded material and we've been experimenting with feeding it into the extruder to see if we can extrude it into beams so we've made some modifications to the hopper to help make it feed into the extruder a little bit better since the rope is so light weight it doesn't really fall in the same way that shredded plastic does with the angled walls so the vertical walls help to make it so that the plastic actually falls into the gaps between the auger and then we extrude that plastic into beams and so we found that we can actually take this this fiber that's usually degrading in the ocean into these tiny little bits and pieces and turn it into these stronger or more long-lasting less degradable beams and Nate has been well we've both been working on finding ways that we can make these beams useful so Nate's gonna show you a little bit about that. Hey guys yeah so just like Paul said we got big beam construction going on as always we've been making all sorts of different things more specifically these great hanging chairs we saw these sorts of things as soon as we got to the island they're called jolly chairs figured beams would be a great use for kind of reconstructing the frames of chairs so we whipped out some beams Paul made some excellent like lap joints so they're nice and square and we're able to do this really cool net sort of technique and make them so you can hang out them very comfy. We've also got the bench. We also have a nice bench, a little step, lots to do. Yeah well that's what we've been up to yeah we've been documenting it in the forums if you're interested you can see our whole process there. Yeah see you guys next one. Alright so we're now in the sunny Portugal looking for the land this is the first one we're going to visit actually also the biggest one here's the crew hanging around looking at the other side here's like a ruin they have rocks we could climb yeah we're just gonna watch more of them. So hello we are Adriana in Catarina we are in Portugal trying to get the knowledge and introduce ourselves for the next year to come with project here so the first week we were meeting some architects and visiting some other sustainable projects here in the area for having the knowledge for how can we start the project like this so from the architect we already learned what can we build in each land what we have to ask to the real estate agent what to take in account in each land yeah from then the sustainable projects all the process the legal process to how to start a project like this. Yeah so after getting to know all these background information and processes how it works here we started looking at properties and within like 10 days or two weeks we saw 30 properties more focused in the central area of Portugal just yeah to get a feeling for how big it actually is so we've seen small ones bigger ones more some with more mountains and the river and some with yeah more flat land and like useful land yeah we've seen a lot of different one and every every one of them was really nice but had different specialties to offer like a big rock core. Castle. There's a lake. Very nice forest here. River waterfall. Shoach cork tree. Fake tree, fake tree. Orange tree. Olive. And then we made this selection of the properties and showed it to Dave and Mathia to make them also get the feeling for the areas and what we actually like what's next we will now from this selection narrow even more down to what we really what selection we really like and then go more into specifics so get the architect get architects and a lawyer and set up a company and talk to the municipalities to then decide which one works for us. So if there's any Portuguese in this area like it's mostly Castelo Branco Coimbra and Viseu the municipalities are going to be more less found out. Daña Nova, Panamacor, Tava, Lusa and Oliveira d'Hospital. So if there's any Portuguese around that can help us please let us know. And as always we will keep you updated in the forums link is in the description and now Charlotte will continue with the monthly news no community news. Bye! Yo it's Charlotte and I'm going to talk to you about the community news from our lovely community from all around the world again. And to kick off the feature I'm going to be talking about Precious Plastic Ukraine they have just made this super sick bench that has just been placed into the capital city Kiev. The bench is made from recycled plastic it's made using plastic beams and the colour is really nice and I love the like the speckles in it from the different types of plastic and the design is also really nice with this kind of curve that they have and what I just love about this bench is it just shows the potentials of recycled plastic the way it's done to such a high standard it's super nice to see and also to see such a big object as well rather than just small things so very very nice work. And next is a designer based out in Norway and he has taken old plastic straws are being thrown out from their shift from plastic back to paper since they can all these plastic straws which would either go in landfill or to our precious oceans and he's making these nice little flutes with them and so he's made a he's CNC milled a mould and yeah he's just using the injection machine and making these three nice little flutes but just a really nice idea because as we make this shift from plastic back to paper all these plastic straws are just being thrown out so it's a nice idea to actually make use of them and this is another favourite of mine one of our workspaces all the way out in Singapore are making these really cool card holders and handbags and tote bags all made from recycled plastic bags and once again just making really high-end finished quality product that looks super cool and they've even achieved this kind of like fake animal leather look which is super impressive and hopefully we'll start replacing materials such as leather or canvas which are usually made for bags and they also do custom-made designs so if you want anything specific they can do that for you which is also really cool and to close the feature I have to mention that we had our first drop-off session this month now that we are half a few the project we are starting to finish machine testing and machine developing and we're now moving into the product design phase which is super exciting and in order to make these products we need a lot of plastic and so we thought we'd ask local people local business owners hairdressers cafe owners to come in and donate their unwanted plastic but we will be having more of these drop-off days so if you're passing through the country or passing through Eindhoven just keep up to date and we'd be posting more of these dates soon and that is it for me this month thank you again for watching I hope it was fun and interesting if it wasn't I'm sorry and if you're building machines you're creating products around the world use a hash like that is plastic so you can see what you're up to it's always super inspiring to see the kind of weird and wonderful things you guys are creating and also thank you to our patron supporters who contribute to the project each and every month thank you goodbye