Circular Economy Podcast

Circular Economy Podcast


Latest Episodes

170 Catherine Weetman: unpacking the new edition of A Circular Economy Handbook
November 08, 2025

Author Catherine Weetman unpacks the new edition of A Circular Economy Handbook: How to Build a More Resilient, Competitive and Sustainable Business, giving you a preview of the big changes and new in

169 Bailey Bestul: imaginative reuse of architectural components to create exciting and inspiring buildings
October 25, 2025

Bailey Bestul explains how imaginative reuse of architectural components can create exciting, unique and inspiring buildings. Bailey is a registered architect, researcher and author based in New York

168 Matt Paneitz of Long Way Home: Hero School – transforming trash into useful buildings
October 11, 2025

Long Way Homes Hero School in Guatemala is a community-rooted educational initiative that transforms local trash into useful buildings. Matthew Paneitz first visited San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala, as a Peace Corps volunteer in 2002, and was deeply affecte

167 HaPPE Earth: circular, compostable PPE systems
September 27, 2025

Lisa and Mary ORiordan are co-founders of HaPPE Earth, a circular business providing compostable Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) with an end-to-end waste management system that creates a nutrient rich fertiliser using this PPE, combined with the clie

166 Circularity Gap Report 2025: insights
September 13, 2025

Matthew Fraser of Circle Economy and David Rakowski of Deloitte unpack key insights from the 2025 Circularity Gap Report.The Circularity Gap Report aims to provide a comprehensive 'report card' for the global circular economy, and shows that we are still

165 Christina Schwarzkopf of Prolong: seamless solutions for circular aftercare and aftersales
September 03, 2025

Christina Schwarzkopf is co-founder of Prolong, a business-to-business white-label software solution enabling fashion brands and retailers to offer and manage circular aftercare and aftersales service

164 Louis De Jaeger: our futures depend on healthy soils
August 16, 2025

Healthy soils provide the foundation for life on our planet, and yet most agriculture degrades soil. Nurturing soil should be at the top of all our priority lists, and Louis De Jaegerauthor of the new book SOS: Save Our Soils, How regenerative farming c

163 Patrik Frisk of Reju: regenerating polyester textiles
August 02, 2025

We dig into the complexities of textile recycling with Patrik Frisk, who is working to create a circular economy for textile-to-textile polyester regeneration. Patrik is the CEO of Reju, a recent star

162 Rachel Bronstein and Barry Waddilove: Skills for Planet from the Design Council
July 19, 2025

In episode 162 we discuss design skills and why its crucial that design for circularity goes beyond the design of the product itself, to cover the materials, the customer experience, the supply chain, the collection of data for KPIs, and much more.Helpi

161 Dan Vukelich of AMDR: medical device reprocessing
July 05, 2025

Dan Vukelich, President of the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors, has spent 25 years campaigning and working to encourage reuse and remanufacturing of single use medical devices, first in the USA and now in Europe and other countries.To give y