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How A Toaster Oven Sparked A Islandwide Recycling Movement | EP 212
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We sit with Deborah from Limpy Recycling to unpack how a toaster oven experiment grew into a local circular-economy shop that turns Curaçao’s plastic waste into souvenirs, furniture parts, and school sports gear. We dig into safe materials, custom molds, community collection, and why hands-on workshops change minds.
• origin of Limpy Recycling and early DIY machines
• why HDPE works and PET is exported
• safe melting practices and ventilation
• sourcing from households and partner recyclers
• process from sorting and washing to shredding and molding
• product range including coasters, clips, art, beams and sheets
• art from washed-ashore plastics and storytelling
• workshops, tours, and sustainable tourism experiences
• soccer goals made from bottle caps and fishing nets
• team growth, in-house design and mold-making
• Sambil awareness space and plans to expand regionally
• how mindset shifts reduce waste habits on the island
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Cold Open: Plastic And Curiosity
SPEAKER_04I really, really love this. Y'all really putting Kira stuff on? Like, okay, listen, like we don't know about y'all, but this is what we do in the halo. We'll take your trash.
SPEAKER_05Thank you very much.
SPEAKER_04Bring it one. Type two plastic.
SPEAKER_00Bring it one. For example, PVC where you put your electricity in that has a material in it that is toxic when you melt it or burn it.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. That's what I I remember like saying, like, hey, don't inhale it, it's bad for you. I'm like, it's just smoke. No, not that kind of smoke. If you can pull that up, that would be super cool.
SPEAKER_06Tell me if you use a lot of plastic.
SPEAKER_05But still, exactly.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we've made a lot of custom keychains for companies, NGOs, giveaways, events. But yeah, we also make furniture awards, medals. So it's not only this, it's much more. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Really cool concept. And I think every other island should uh take note of this.
SPEAKER_04I love it.
SPEAKER_05Work with Airbnbs or whatever in Curissa and say, like, welcome to Recycle City.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_05But imagine like chairs. So everything is, I mean, obviously the house is out of concrete and blocks, but it's like Lego World from plastic. That's why I would rent that place. I like Legos.
SPEAKER_01We definitely got to be a good thing.
SPEAKER_05We got business before you there.
Meet Deborah And Limpy Recycling
SPEAKER_04Hey yo, what's up? I like chemistry.
SPEAKER_05Welcome back to the ABC's Island Fair podcast, No Filter in Paradise, a show about anything and everything between two friends. One is straight and the other.
SPEAKER_04The baddest you've ever met in your life, babies. I'm a black homosexual.
SPEAKER_05Okay, I was waiting for that part. Alright, guys. So today we're back on the show. We got a very interesting guest here today. She brought a lot of interesting things. She was asking, Hey, can I put a few things? I'm like, bro, everything. Like everything you have to show.
SPEAKER_04All the stops.
SPEAKER_05And then she starts taking it out. I'm like, oh, damn. Like, this is a lot of stuff you guys do. So today we have none other than Dabora Nadum.
SPEAKER_02Yes, guys. From Limpy. Wow. I know. Low.
SPEAKER_05Oh, sorry. I'm known for butchering our guests. So it's like everybody looks like.
SPEAKER_00You said it perfect.
SPEAKER_05Thank God. Alright, so Deborah, for people who don't know who you are, um, give a little bit of a background as to why we're here today.
SPEAKER_00Well, I'm Deborah Nadam, and together with my partner Mitchell Lamaring, we started Limpy Recycling about I think eight years ago now.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_00And um, yeah, we make new products from plastic waste here on the island as a short explanation.
SPEAKER_05As a very short explanation. We got time. Yeah. We'll see you next week. Thank you. We already ambushed her in the beginning when she walked in and she was prepared with the answer.
SPEAKER_04That's how you that's how you do it, though. You stay ready till you have to get ready.
SPEAKER_05Exactly.
Building DIY Machines And Early Experiments
SPEAKER_04Okay. So let's talk about Limpy. When did when did this project start?
SPEAKER_00So we started in 2016. We um made a few small machines. We bought a small toaster oven.
SPEAKER_05Hold up. You made a few small machines. Yeah. You didn't buy a machine, you made it.
SPEAKER_00No, we made it, yeah. Oh, we go get it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Because there's people who like they see an opportunity, they buy it, but like the fact that they actually made the machine that makes all this.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Okay, we're gonna get into it.
SPEAKER_00We we started small with small machines just to see what we can do with the plastic. It started as a a project, like we wanna create value from the plastic waste we find here on the island. And uh you started in your garden.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, in your background.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, in a small shed in my parents' garden. We had to clear it up to make some room for limpy.
SPEAKER_05What was that uh was that an issue with them? Like, hey, keep with us.
SPEAKER_00No, no, it was a uh positive thing because my father just put everything in uh in the shed and we finally cleaned it up, organized it.
SPEAKER_05Oh, your mom was happy. I gotta do nothing anymore.
SPEAKER_00Until we got too big, then we took too much space. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04It'd be like that. It'd be like that. Okay, so a toaster oven you said?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so we started with a small toaster oven. We put a uh request on Facebook. Does anyone have something that we can use or buy for a small price so we can test some things in? Uh and that's how we made our first art pieces, and and from then on we grew into a bigger company.
unknownThat's crazy.
SPEAKER_05I'm just I'm still mind blown over the fact that you started with a toaster oven.
SPEAKER_04Okay, so what were you doing with the oven? So that's where you were melting the plastic.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so um we both studied industrial product design. So we learned about the plastic characteristics, what you can do with it, how you can make products with it. But the way we need to use that is very different from in the big industry because our products are yeah, raw.
SPEAKER_05Can you see the the clip? Yeah, that's the one that I'm because you know I'm doing laundry and stuff now.
What Plastics Work And Why
SPEAKER_00So yeah, we need to we needed to adjust the machines to the way we wanted to make products. Um and yeah, a small toaster oven, we just put plastic in it, see how it reacted, and made shapes as art pieces.
SPEAKER_04So, what is what is the hardest type of plastic that you deal with?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you have different types of plastics, millions of types, but it's characterized in uh seven groups. Um, the first one is the most popular are drinking bottles. That's a very difficult material to work with. Really? It's being recycled, but not on the island, it's being exported and and processed in big industries. Um, but it has a very precise melting temperature, a very precise um uh cooling down method because if it goes different, it becomes breakable and all that stuff. So it's a difficult uh material. But what we use most are, for example, the cleaning bottles. So number two, uh these are HTPE bottles.
SPEAKER_05Looks like a Vex bottles.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, these are cleaning bottles, clean detergents for your clothes, for your house. Um, they are nice and colorful, and it's easier material to work with. Um, so yeah, we we choose the plastic type that we work with for it to be able to work with the machines and the products we make.
SPEAKER_04That makes sense. So, is this a bottle that y'all made, or is this that you wanted to do that? That we use.
SPEAKER_00So these are the bottles that people use at home. We ask them to collect it and then it then we can recycle them. Oh wow.
SPEAKER_05Because you you can work with these kind of bottles.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, especially, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Okay.
SPEAKER_04I mess with that.
SPEAKER_05I I have a question because, like, for some reason, I when I was in school, I remember something like if you melt plastic, whatever that the smoke is, it's bad for you.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so you have different types of plastic. Um, for example, PVC, where you put your electricity in that has a material in it that is toxic when you melt it or burn it.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, um that's why I I remember like saying, like, hey, don't heal it, it's bad for you. I'm like, it's just smoke. No, not that kind of smoke.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, foam as well. So you get your trucky pang in or whatever. If you heat it up, wait, what?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, foam blancos in the way.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so it's it's bad for you. It is, yeah. It's not very bad, but it's not because it's not the healthiest thing for your body. Yeah, so that's why they also promote to not use foam anymore.
SPEAKER_01Use carton.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, for example.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god.
SPEAKER_00Um, but we don't burn the plastic, we melt it, the the number two type of plastic. So we have minimal gases that are are being released, and we do have a suction system in our uh fabric that everything gets uh pulled away. So the way we work, it's safe with safe materials in a safe environment. But yeah, you do have plastics that are toxic once you burn them or melt them.
SPEAKER_05So don't burn your plastic, please. Please don't do it, especially in your house.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. So let's talk about once you got all of these things melted down and all this good stuff. Where did the idea come from of like, hmm, let's start shaping them and let's start making them into stuff that people can actually reuse?
Community Collection And Supply Loop
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so the idea came while we were finishing up our study, especially for me. I was born and raised here, moved to Holland to uh study. And while finishing up, my question was will I stay in Holland, have a full-time job, or will I move back to Curaçao and do something creative? The opportunity to do something like that here is much bigger than in Holland. Um, so we came up with the idea also by learning the dangers of plastic, is let's show people that plastic waste is not uh uh trash, it's something that you can repurpose, reuse, and create something new with it. So we started as a project to say, okay, let's collect this plastic waste on the island, let's show people once you make something new out of it, it's not your trash anymore. And that's why I also brought the products. Is once people see it, they're like, huh, this this was a bottle cap. This was a that was my reaction when I saw it.
SPEAKER_05I'm still impressed by this.
SPEAKER_00I'm like that's why we we wanted to show people look, it's something valuable that needs to be recycled and not just thrown away. Um, so that's how how it started is is try to make awareness around this this plastic problem the world is facing.
SPEAKER_04Was it difficult to get people on board?
SPEAKER_00Um not really. We we made a video in I think 2017 with this is what we want to do, look what we can do. And the reaction was so positive on the islands. Um, we've had a lot of interviews, a lot of people that wanted to ask questions, still we were like, hold up, we really want to make some products.
SPEAKER_05So right now it's an idea, but like come back in like three years, and then we have a lot to show.
SPEAKER_00Just a few months.
SPEAKER_05Okay, sorry. She was like, we're not gonna be humble.
SPEAKER_03I study this.
SPEAKER_00Like, yeah, it's for us the the results are important. We are we're not really storytellers and and make things bigger than it is. We we want to prove what we say that the show by action, yeah. So we want to be sure that we can do it before even showing uh telling people about it. Um, so yeah, that's how we started with with small steps, small machines, and once the company grew bigger, yeah, we we became bigger, bigger machines, bigger.
SPEAKER_05How big is your team right now?
SPEAKER_00Um, we're with myself and Mitchell, and two other full-time uh colleagues, and then we have three part-time colleagues as well. We just hired someone else. Nice, and we're also looking for someone else for the assembly.
SPEAKER_05So now's your chance.
SPEAKER_00Let me know, let me know.
SPEAKER_04Let's go. So, would these uh um pieces be available in like kayakaia and stuff like that?
From Shredding To Molding To Products
SPEAKER_00Um, not kayakaia. We do have a lot of stores on the island that sell it. Oh, nice! Um, so we have different types of products. We have our souvenirs that are available in about 20 to 30 stores around the islands.
SPEAKER_06Super nice.
SPEAKER_00And uh a lot of custom-made products um that we just make for companies.
SPEAKER_04Uh so what is considered souvenirs? Like the keychains?
SPEAKER_00Um, yeah, so the keychains, the art pieces. We make coasters, the clips are art pieces.
SPEAKER_05Do you say posters?
SPEAKER_00Coasters. Oh, coasters. To put your glasses on.
SPEAKER_05Why are the clips so big though?
SPEAKER_00Um, they were originally made for beach towels.
SPEAKER_05Uh oh, the beds when you have to be. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05But uh I'm just saying, if you make these smaller sizes, you know.
SPEAKER_00True.
SPEAKER_05It's kind of I mean, you can't write, you know, the branding on it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we can put it's we can go pretty small, detailed if you look at the oh yeah, 100%.
SPEAKER_05If you have if you had like fifty like a pack of 20, I'm ready to put in my suitcase and take it to Aruba.
SPEAKER_00The unique thing of us is as well, we do the product designing, mold making, uh machine building. So everything is in-house. Yeah, we do everything from the collecting till the end product.
SPEAKER_05I love this. Yeah, me too.
SPEAKER_04I really, really love this. Y'all really putting Kira style on like hey, listen, like we don't know about y'all, but this is what we do in a way. We'll take your trash. Thank you very much. Bring it one, the type two plastic. Bring it one.
SPEAKER_05So, how does that work? So you so how does the the the whole circle looking at stuff like somebody goes, gets the plastic, brings it over here, brings it over here?
SPEAKER_00Like, yeah, so the the process of how we get plastic, yeah. So we have different people that bring it people that just collect it at home that that bring it to us, but we also work together with the other recycling companies on the island that export the plastic. Um, sometimes we do uh uh switch. We have a lot of the drinking bottles that we don't process, but they do.
SPEAKER_05So then we gave me some of your recipe.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so it's it's uh a teamwork. I was gonna use that one. Uh, we also have cleaning companies that collect their bottles for us. We pick it up now and then. Um yeah, companies that that promote sustainability on the work area that they collect it for us. So it's a lot of different people and helps out like you guys, yeah.
SPEAKER_05It's kind of nice though. It's kind of it kind of helps on the expense side for you guys as well. As like now you don't have to hire someone to go and collect everything. Like exactly hey, it's ready for pickup. All right, cool, I'll be there one o'clock and pick it up. So now that you get all the plastic, where do you take it?
Art From Washed-Ashore Plastics
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so we have the whole processing area where we need to separate the bottles from types. Uh, we also separate the colors because the colors are important for our products. It's blue and um, we need to wash them, we need to clean them, the the uh soap that are inside, the labels we need to remove, then we shred it into smaller pieces, so that's what we have here. And those pieces go into our machines. Uh in the meantime, we make the designs, we make the molds, um, and then we do the production. That's kind of cool. And then we have our assembly team that assembles the keychains, the clips, the products, and then we have an end product.
SPEAKER_05Is the is the molding like, are you able to create pretty much whatever you want?
SPEAKER_00Um yes. But what's one thing? You have you have rules. You have rules that they it needs to be released out of the mold, it can't be too thin. Uh you have designing rules that you need to stick to.
SPEAKER_05If you selfishly could create one thing, what would it be?
SPEAKER_00We've made everything we wanted to make.
SPEAKER_05You just didn't even like you don't sell it though. Like what's something that's like, for example, like because I see a lot of turtles and stuff, things with Curissa, I see flamingo, CCC stars.
SPEAKER_00I never thought of it.
SPEAKER_05Like, what's like one crazy thing? Like, oh, I wanted to make a samurai sword out of a plastic. For example, I mean, I'm going extra.
SPEAKER_00It's more more with school. We did that. Uh what? At school. Okay, yeah. So we made 3D models. Uh no, we made 3D models of our ourselves, and then we printed that. So we had small figures of ourselves, but that's before D actually.
SPEAKER_05That's like all the experiment, the experiment era, yeah.
SPEAKER_04That's crazy.
SPEAKER_05So basically, you can make a mole out of a shark and then like shark, you have to come back.
SPEAKER_04How much how much plastic would I need for that? Half the half the island. Diving in the ocean, like, yo. But speaking of, let's talk about that. Now, there's a lot of I remember you said one of these things were washed up plastic or washed up waste.
Stores, Custom Orders, And In-House Design
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so the the smaller products are the the more useful products we make from the bottles that people collect at home, but we also make art pieces, and we make this from the plastic that is washed ashore. So you can see it's more uh of a rough art piece that we make. It gets put somewhere and you don't use it or touch it, so it's more brittle. Uh, the plastic that we find on the north side of Curaçao, you can't recognize what it was. So we we sort it out on color, um, and it tells more of a story. It's it's rougher, it you see that it's made from recycled plastic. While you look at the other products, you don't recognize what it was before. Um, so yeah, this is what we make from the wash-ashore plastic as art as a story to it makes sense why it's a turtle as well. Yeah, it makes sense. It's also for yeah, the island.
SPEAKER_04A biggest story as well. Like, hey, you know what? Let's protect our environment, let's protect our oceans, because y'all I'm in shock because I really can't believe like all of this product is available on the same. And there's still more. That's that's the craziest part. I'm in love with this.
SPEAKER_05Is all your art stuff that you guys make out of plastic, like on a website or on Facebook and supported order?
SPEAKER_00So, like the souvenirs we make are on our website, lympurecycling.com. We have a web shop.
SPEAKER_05Uh by the way, guys, everything is in the description. So if website, everything you want to see about them, we'll put it down there.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and the custom products we make, those we do have some pictures on our on our socials, but not on our website. Yeah, um, but yeah, we've made a lot of custom keychains for companies, NGOs, giveaways, um events. Um, but yeah, we also make furniture awards, medals. So it's not only this, it's much more yeah.
SPEAKER_05Elaborate. Like can you make a chair?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, like a bench. So we make beams and sheets, and then we use that to create big trash bins, bench.
SPEAKER_05Um here's an idea. I love work with Airbnbs or whatever in Curosa and say, like, what come to recycle city? Yeah, like everything in here is like a chair is recycling. That's recycling, that's black. Like, imagine, like a yeah, obviously, the house can be made out of well, maybe.
SPEAKER_04Maybe maybe some blocks.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it's like you gotta make make the mold and then you just dump all the plastic in there and release the that would be if you can pull that off, that would be super cool. But still, but still I believe in y'all. But imagine like chairs, so everything is. I mean, obviously the house is out of concrete and blocks, but it's like Lego World from plastic. That's why I would rent that place. I like Legos.
SPEAKER_00We'll work on it.
SPEAKER_05How's that?
SPEAKER_00We're we'll work on it.
SPEAKER_05It's coming, it's so I want to know how do you guys make it make it aware? For like, for example, do you guys do anything in schools or any workshops?
Workshops, Tours, And Mindset Shift
SPEAKER_00That was also a big part of why we started Lympia's the awareness. So, besides the factory, um, we also do workshops and tours at our facility. Um, we also made a small machine for kids to create their own uh keychains because, like I said, once you see it, once you feel it and and experience it, that's when the the light comes on. Um, so yeah, we do workshops with kids, but also with tourists and and locals, and it doesn't only stay at kids, it's everyone to create awareness and show firsthand how we create something new from plastic waste.
SPEAKER_05I think the tourist part is kind of cool. They get to do the whole creative thing and they get to take, I'm assuming they get to take it home as well.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05That's cool.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so it's also something new for the sustainable tourism side. Yeah. Um, a lot of hotels contact us as well. Like someone's coming, especially to Curaçao, to get to know the sustainable side of it, and then we give them a tour, uh a workshop, let them create something themselves for an awesome experience on Curaçao.
SPEAKER_05Sometimes I forget that's a market itself, you know. Because obviously, people come for the beach and stuff like that, and then you hear things like this like oh I'm coming to see like how do you guys recycle your plastic? It's kind of crazy. It's amazing.
SPEAKER_04So, awareness is something that was very big on your priority list before starting up limpy, while doing limpy, and now you have the island on this wave, you have students on this wave, you have tourists on this wave. What does that feeling feel like?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's it's there's always a moment where you're like, oh my god, we we did this, like um it was an idea and a project in the beginning, and to see where it came now is always yeah, it you are proud of yourself for information. We should be this really cool stage. Um, and it's also motivating, like people recognize what you do as something good and and yeah, uh beneficial for the island, so it motivates you to keep on pushing, and so it's very cool to to see where we are now.
SPEAKER_04That's like an extra uh extra touch to it, is because us from the islands, we don't see these things happening for us a lot, and we like I would never think of using plastic and like let me go melt this thing and like create something with it, you know? Yeah, so the fact that you instill and you know, like poke these things in our brains to be like, hey, be more aware of your trash because it's actually treasure. Yeah, it's it's it's something that I definitely think you should be extremely shout out to the entire limpy crew, by the way. Okay, all of y'all should be extremely proud. Curaceo should be extremely proud. ABC is general. I feel like you're just y'all are carrying the baton for all of us.
SPEAKER_05I was just thinking, like, I don't think I've seen this in Aruba, nor in Bunair, and I was like, would you guys ever expand to the ABC Islands?
Big Machines, Bigger Vision
SPEAKER_00It is one of our our wishes, our goals to expand because we do everything ourselves. We created the machines. Once we figured out everything, we can copy, paste it, and and expand. So it is one of our wishes to it's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, unless somebody sees it, it's like, oh, we gotta go to the city.
SPEAKER_03Uh they don't have your source, it's okay. Like, exactly.
SPEAKER_05We always say people can copy Shark or whatever we do, but you don't have the same attitude that we have, so you can't really copy it. Same thing, like you can copy, you can't make the machines that we make, so good luck with that.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and maybe they can, maybe they can make better ones or buy better ones. Buy it from you, but buy it from you. It's not the same thing, you know. Like this is pure, you can feel the energy, and it's purely based off of hey, I really want to help. Yeah, yeah. It doesn't feel like it's like a money grab or something like that, you know. So I messed with this. I'm y'all. Okay, cause what? Oh, I'm also very impressed with this. I am extra normally. I'll never fly against this. I can just keep going. But like thank you, thank you.
SPEAKER_05That's why I'm I'm relaxed. I'm gonna wait. He's gonna hype you up for like five minutes. You're gonna go back home, like baby got nothing on me. You're gonna hyped all day. You're gonna learn from a shark.
SPEAKER_03Black, you don't even have to go back to work today.
SPEAKER_05Like, I've done my part.
SPEAKER_03You've done enough, baby. Okay.
SPEAKER_05So leave the So how do you how do you see um doing what you're doing? How about you feel like how do you feel like it's impacting the beaches and everything around Curacao?
Soccer Goals From Caps And Nets
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's it's a good one. Yeah, it's difficult because the pollution we have on Curacao, if it's if people throw stuff in the ocean, it doesn't stay on Curacao, it goes to the next island. Yeah, um, but what you notice is the the change of mindset in people. Like I mentioned, the the cups. Normally people bring cups to parties, now they bring their own uh reusable cup. Um, and little changes like that, yeah, they they make a change on Curaçao. We're not there yet, there's a lot of work still to do. But the mindsets that are changing in people, that's the biggest impact we're making now. Um, to show the dangers of the trash that we are making, that it's not only oh, out of sight, not my problem.
SPEAKER_05Correct. A lot of people think that way. That's that's the bad part. They still do, so just I did think that way. Damn, what the hell?
SPEAKER_04I'm trying to go on limpy's page. I want to see the page.
SPEAKER_05I was like, what do you do? I want to see the page. I'm like, I when I was looking, I would think that's a problem. I just did it on banda, like yeah, I was driving the other day, some guy talked, I was throwing out the window. If I was if I wasn't on that highway and driving fast, I would have like stopped.
SPEAKER_00Like, yo, yeah, what are you doing? Like, yeah, so there's still a long way to go. Yeah, but yeah, we hope to reach everyone and and try to make that impact to show them.
SPEAKER_05Do you have like like plastic trash bins like near the beaches, like popular beaches?
SPEAKER_00Um, no, because we don't want to receive too much at the same time.
SPEAKER_05People are gonna toss their own like trash.
SPEAKER_00And it's not only plastic that you're gonna get.
SPEAKER_05You're gonna get a lot uh oil paper and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're gonna gotta do the diapers and poop. And I'm like, I don't want to deal with this.
SPEAKER_04Food, you're gonna get everything. Yeah, no, let's cancel that. Let's cancel that. Okay, so this is the machine. Is this one of the machines? One of the machines. Okay, come through.
SPEAKER_05You guys made this.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. You made this. I thought you made a small little machine. No, no, no, girl, this is small. No, we made uh some big machines. Wait, you must have got some geniuses up in here, not Dexter making machines. Oh what?
SPEAKER_05Hold up, and everything you make is from uh 3D printing. Nothing. I mean, obviously you can't build a machine.
SPEAKER_003D printing is more for us for prototyping our parts for the machines.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, correct.
Expansion Plans And Sambil Awareness Space
SPEAKER_04Um parts for the machines. I love you. Oh, this is crazy.
SPEAKER_05This is really cool.
SPEAKER_04Nah, limpy to the world. That's yeah. Where's the the rest of the world needs limpy?
SPEAKER_05Is he cool?
SPEAKER_04Yep, yep.
SPEAKER_05It is really cool.
SPEAKER_04Oh my god.
SPEAKER_05Grab it, Shrek. Grab it, grab it. He wants the pink one.
SPEAKER_04Oh my god. Wait, I'm not trying to break it.
SPEAKER_05That's what I wanted to hear. You know what? You know what it feels like? You know the air hockey at the games.
SPEAKER_03This is a really Instagram account.
SPEAKER_05Also in the description. Shout out to the Leos, by the way, okay. Oh, here's you guys make the you know those little crocs thing on the on the charms.
SPEAKER_00The pins.
SPEAKER_05I don't know what they call it. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00We didn't make something like that yet. I see like this little smaller, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05So we could, yeah. If you make those little small gibbets, gibbets or whatever it's called.
SPEAKER_04I can't remember. Add the little plastic thing that can fit in the in the crocs.
SPEAKER_05Everybody's wearing crocs nowadays.
SPEAKER_04Good idea. I might have to contact you, make some periodical ones, baby.
SPEAKER_05No, no, no, let us know. We won't invoice you, I promise. I'll get into it.
SPEAKER_04I'm in love with the mold making. Yeah, please don't stop. Okay. I don't think they plan on it. I'm just saying, you know, stuff can happen. Please don't stop. We're doing our best. You continue doing your best, you make that recipe, and you have these people on this because this right here, the fact that, and I mean, like, the possibilities are basically endless. Yeah, I mean, we're just talking about this now, but just imagine where else this could take could go. Yeah, and plastic is something that we know it's a worldwide problem. All types of plastic. So this is huge. This is really, really huge. And I really love this for us.
SPEAKER_05What's like the one thing right now, like that that recently you guys have done that you're really proud of?
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SPEAKER_00Um, yeah, a lot of different things, but one project that stands out is what we're doing together with Sandals uh resort on IEX.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um, they started a partnership together, and for the launch, they started a project here on Curaçao where all the elementary schools are getting uh two uh soccer goals that we make from bottle caps and uh regarding regarded fishing nets. Um they get uh sporting equipment, they get coaching, it's a whole project. So that's a cool project that we're part of. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04I saw it, but I was like, ah nah, maybe it's the the the kid just like I'm trying not to curse here.
SPEAKER_05Nah, and this is a recycle of fishnets, yeah.
SPEAKER_00So just from the ocean, like no, it's from the Coast Guard, so the Coast Guard confiscated it in the ocean or from fishermen that are fishing illegally.
SPEAKER_05You can basically you can set this, sorry, you can set this up like anywhere. Like you can basically every popular beach of super busy, just make a meany little soccer field with this.
SPEAKER_04Or a volleyball, because that's also very big for beaches. Yeah. Oh my god, and you know the the fish, I've been watching a lot of documentaries, and these fishing nets have been causing a lot of mayhem in the ocean. So the fact that you found a uh way to repurpose them, yeah.
SPEAKER_00So yeah, it's a very cool project, not only what they're doing, but the awareness that they also bring with this program to all the schools here on the island. Um, so yeah, that's one of the projects that stand out.
SPEAKER_04I'm obsessed with limpy. Like 100%. I need a t-shirt and I'm gonna start wrapping y'all from like abroad. I'm like, listen.
SPEAKER_05Kidalimpi. Kidalie, what what's what's one big project you guys are working on right now?
SPEAKER_00Um at the moment we have a lot of small projects, so custom custom orders, yeah.
SPEAKER_05So we're oh, so anybody can just like, hey, I want this really cool made.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so we're now making products for Chogogo Bonaire, and we're making luggage tags, keychains, uh uh um art pieces.
SPEAKER_05So there's a high chance we're coming back in January, in January. Yeah. Maybe we can make like a no-filter. Yeah, sign.
SPEAKER_00We've made signs.
SPEAKER_05No, it's like I will say that. She's like, oh, when we come back, oh here you go, guys.
SPEAKER_04Nah, nah, nah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we're coming back for this because we've had we had projects for uh Hoffi Cascara where we made signs order here, their logo. Uh so the tables and the restaurants are also made from recycled plastic.
SPEAKER_05So, what would happen if there's no more plastic?
SPEAKER_00The chance is very small. It's never gonna have no more plastic, we reached our goal.
SPEAKER_05But uh, let's recreate the problem again. I'm getting it.
SPEAKER_00No, there's there's a lot of plastic we can we can avoid, but there's a lot of plastic that's just in the the system now.
SPEAKER_05There's there's no way to like you'll be in business for the next 50 years.
SPEAKER_00There's a lot of plastic that needs to be stopped being made, but there's a lot that we just need to learn how to discard of it, yeah, how to recycle it, how to reuse it, how not to use it. So the problem that there's no more plastic unfortunately won't uh be here.
SPEAKER_04So let me ask you this 2026 is like at the at this rate next week. Tomorrow, yeah. Like at this rate is next week. What is one goal that Limpee would like to achieve for 2026?
SPEAKER_00So the way we think at Limpy, our our short-term goals, I don't know if that's good or not, but one one of the goals we have, we've recently moved to some build, a shopping center. Um, and we have a uh small room in the mall that connects to our facility. Um, we want to make that an open awareness room so that people that are visiting the mall can just come in and uh be educated about the plastic problem, but also sustainability on the island. Um, that's one of the goals we have set now to create more awareness around it. And then people can visit the area without having tours or without paying. They can visit with their family. Yeah, it's free. It's it's a uh a business store. Yeah, and then behind that is our facility where we can provide tours or workshops. Um, but that's our goal now to create that awareness area for people to become aware. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I have nothing to say.
SPEAKER_05Honestly, I'm a little bit like speechless because I didn't know where this conversation was gonna go. And I I in my mind I'm just like okay, recreate plastic. Yeah, and but I didn't realize one, like there's a bunch of over there, but like how deep and how far this goes, yeah, and how much creativity there is behind it. You guys made a little soccer goal, you guys made like a sign that says order here. Like, I didn't know how far it went until I'm listening to you, and I'm like, But even like to the details on, because it could have just been like a Lions Dive is a nice hotel, by the way.
SPEAKER_04A coaster, like very bland and basic and nothing on it, but the fact that there's still details on it, yeah, still personalized it to like a different, higher level, like yeah, and that's why we believe in seeing what we're doing, that that's the impact.
SPEAKER_00Because we've told people our story before, and they're like, Yeah, yeah, cool, cool.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, until you show them this, you show them the machines, you show them the process, and they're like, Wow, what's um do you see the support came a lot more after because this is something we see a lot. It's like people don't support until they see, oh, everybody's on board. I want to be on board now, too.
SPEAKER_00You know what I mean? Yeah, but not they really know it.
SPEAKER_05Like from day one, like people loved it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's not that people loved it or not, it's the people that saw us uh supported us, and not everyone heard our story. Of course. The thing with Lympia as well is that we are more busy with the production than marketing and promoting. Um, so a lot of people don't know about us.
SPEAKER_05One second. Let's continue.
SPEAKER_00So a lot of people in the beginning, exactly, didn't know about us or what we did. Um, so that's also important with our new move to some beal is to show people what we do and and that we're here.
SPEAKER_05That's your main office now.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. So everything's in the back. Yeah. So once you walk in the mall, we have a big window where you can also see inside. So you guys are more than welcome to visit us.
SPEAKER_04100%. Hey! You probably about to be sick of us. Remember, hey, let's put the leapy real quick. You're gonna be sick of me.
SPEAKER_05I've only been to Sambil once. People always joke in the room, hey Sambil, because my name is Samil. Yeah, and some of my friends tell me the B in the middle, like, hey, Sambil, get it like old joke. Forever, forever. But it's really, really cool, man.
SPEAKER_04Nah, I love it. I really, really do. Thank you guys. So, listen, before we close out, I just want you to look into this camera here, and I want you to talk to each and every one of the people listening today, and close them off with a word of why you think or why they should start thinking about more sustainability and more sustainable practices for the world that we live in and where we're going.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Go crazy.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_05Don't hold back. Don't make it short, make it long. This is your moment.
SPEAKER_00Well, first of all, I would like to thank everyone that's watching already to hear my story and and what I'm doing. Also, that I've raised a bit more awareness about the blessing problem we're having. Um, yeah, I just like to motivate people just to be aware. That's the biggest thing. By being aware, you notice much more. You realize that what you're leaving behind has a bigger impact than you realize. Um actually, it's it's as simple as that. Be aware what you do, what you use, how you treat people. Um, not only with the the plastic you're using, but the the yeah, the vibe you leave behind by being kind to someone that also makes the world a better place. So, in overall, not only with plastic, um, be aware of what you're doing.
SPEAKER_05Thank you so much.
SPEAKER_00Thank you.
SPEAKER_05I got one final thing. How can people get involved with you? Like somebody's just watching right now, like, hey, I want to be involved with this. How can I help?
SPEAKER_00Um, so yeah, the way to help is actually to buy our products because that's what uh support us most. Um, so we have our souvenirs that are that are available on the island or in our web shop. Um, but also companies, if you want a giveaway, awards, uh uh gifts for high, high, higher clients or anything, or employee appreciations, yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_05Gifts, anything DMCs when they come down with their big companies, they can have like metal corporate groups, like these little turtles. This would be a great thing with a company logo on it.
SPEAKER_00Logos we can customize everything, so yeah, by contacting us to that you're interested in an order that that's the way to support us, I guess.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I'm telling you, there's a lot of growth in Aruba. So I think that's one place you need to have an eye on.
SPEAKER_06Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_05There's a lot of opportunity because I don't I know people have tried, especially with glass. They go to I know a friend of mine used to do it, he would cut that make glass um cups and people can use, but uh I don't see anybody doing this at all.
SPEAKER_04Like and there's there's sorry, there's a beach that I go to and it is on that side of the island. So all of the trash really does swipe up right there.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and you could do like 500 beach cleanups, but yeah, it's it's they say dwele met the kran open. It's it's you do a cleanup a week, a month after it's fun again.
SPEAKER_05So business, yeah. We definitely got we got we got business before you there. No, if if if honestly, if you ever if you're ever open to it, just let us know. Like we can introduce it to some people right people, and like, hey, make we'll help you find the right partner for Aruba because it's a really cool concept, and I think every other island should take to uh take note of this because it's a place around the world.
SPEAKER_04I mean, I'm gonna contact Limpi, okay? Like, come through, y'all.
SPEAKER_05Like I'm helping her like start small and then go big.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but I'm I'm telling the world that you need to start contacting.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it always goes big. It always goes big.
SPEAKER_04Okay, to the bigger picture. The world needs to get involved. Netflix, y'all need to contact Limbi and get involved. Like, to be honest, like, dude, there's a bunch of documentaries. Why not use it?
SPEAKER_05Title, title Small Island, Big Changes.
SPEAKER_04Let's do it.
SPEAKER_05Copyright. We won royalties. Thank you. All right. I want to say thank you for coming on the show. And um, I think we're gonna be having another part two in the future, maybe closer to the end of 2026. Yeah, you're like, hey, what's new? Bigger machines? Yeah, yeah. Are we going to Aruba? Where are we going? All right, guys. I hope you guys learned something today. It's not a very interesting shark. Was flabbergasted throughout this whole episode, so was I. Uh, my job was like so. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Subscribe to the channel, uh, leave a comment, get a coaster, get pins. I think you guys should make smaller so I can take home. And listen, I we get it, we get it, we get it. Close out. Jesus. We'll see you next week. Peace. Ayo. Bye.