Circular Economy Podcast
Episodes
76 Isolde de Ridder – Circular Jewellery
09 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Isolde de Ridder is a circular jeweller and goldsmith. She founded her business - Isolde de Ridder Sieraden, in 2017, to create high-end jewellery wit...
75 Helena Norberg-Hodge – the future is local
27 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
HELENA NORBERG-HODGE is a pioneer of the new economy movement and recipient of Right Livelihood Award (aka the "Alternative Nobel Prize"), the Arthur ...
74 Charles Ross on Outdoor Clothing
13 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Ross is a specialist in Performance Sportswear Design & sustainable matters, focusing on issues like Forever Chemicals (highlighted by the mov...
73 Tom Szaky – Loop – the convenience of prefill
27 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Szaky, founder of TerraCycle, tells us how the Loop reusable packaging platform is bringing the convenience of prefill to high streets everywhere....
Episode 72 Gavin Fernie-Jones is repurposing outdoor gear, One Tree at a Time
13 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gavin Fernie-Jones founded One Tree at a Time, an amazing circular social enterprise for outdoor gear and ski-wear, sharing value with the community a...
Episode 71 Rob Thompson – scaling up circular marine plastic solutions
30 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Odyssey Innovation collects and recycles marine plastic into kayaks and other products. In 2020, we heard about the UK south-west coast operations –...
Episode 70 – Customer Pain Points
16 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Solving customer problems is at the heart of a successful product or service – but what if you’ve misunderstood your customer’s pain points? Tod...
Episode 69 Jo Godden of RubyMoon – circular fibres for activewear
02 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
RubyMoon, based in Brighton in the UK, is already using recycled fibres from Ocean Plastics to make its active wear products, and now wants to go furt...
Episode 68 Kresse Wesling – Elvis & Kresse – luxury products from discarded materials
12 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kresse Wesling, CBE, is a multi-award winning environmental entrepreneur. After first meeting the London Fire Brigade in 2005, Kresse launched Elvis &...
Episode 67 Megan O’Connor Of Nth Cycle – a big leap forward for metal & mineral recovery
28 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Megan O’Connor is co-founder and CEO of Nth Cycle, a metal processing company that has developed technology to enable a clean, domestic, and streaml...
Episode 66 Alyssa Couture – Healthy Fashion is better for all of us, and our planet
14 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alyssa Couture is the author of Healthy Fashion: The Deeper Truths. Alyssa’s book is all about fashion for mental health, physical health, spiritual...
Episode 65 Charlotte Morley – thelittleloop – the UK’s first shared wardrobe for kids
30 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The UK’s first shared wardrobe for kids - Charlotte Morley founded thelittleloop to offer a solution to clothing waste with convenience, choice, qua...
Ep64 Pierre-Emmanuel Saint-Esprit of ZACK
16 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pierre-Emmanuel Saint-Esprit is the co-founder of ZACK, France’s leading company enabling the second life of electronic products, through recycling,...
Episode 63 Hede Razoky – The Upcyclecentrum
02 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the account manager for the Upcyclecentrum in Almere, in the Netherlands, Hede Razoky has a strong focus on creative entrepreneurship and making co...
Episode 62 Malin Orebäck – Circular Design at McKinsey
18 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Malin Orebäck is leading McKinsey Design’s work in sustainability and circular economy. McKinsey Design is one of the world’s leading design agen...
Episode 61 Astrid Wynne – IT Sustainability expert
04 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Astrid Wynne is the Sustainability Lead at Techbuyer, a global sustainable IT solutions provider, which specialises in product life extension. She is ...
Episode 60 Turning off the tap
21 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Every 10th episode, Catherine Weetman looks back at recent conversations and round up some of the insights we’ve heard: The theme for this episode i...
Episode 59 – Rae Stanton of Lush
07 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rae Stanton is the Earthcare Retail Lead for Lush Cosmetics UK and Ireland, using Permaculture principles to provide environmental best practice insig...
Episode 58 Elis Joudalova – OLIO
24 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to Elis Joudalova about OLIO, the #1 sharing app. OLIO connects neighbours with each other and with local businesses so surplus food can be sh...
Episode 57 Helen Burdett – World Economic Forum
10 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Burdett leads the World Economic Forum’s work on circular economy innovation, including its flagship initiative, Scale360°, and its work on C...
Episode 56 Laura Meijering – Unravelau
26 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Meijering, a designer, fashion lover and entrepreneur from The Netherlands. While studying, Laura watched the True Cost documentary - something ...
Episode 55 Anthony Burns – ACS
12 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We meet Anthony Burns, Chief Operating Officer of ACS in Scotland. ACS started out as a formal-wear hire business, and is now an internationally recog...
Episode 54 Louise Bijleveld – LONO
29 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Weetman talks to Louise Bijleveld, Co-Founder of LONO in Côte d’Ivoire. Lono helps agro-industrial companies and farmer cooperatives to c...
Episode 53 Mick Payne – Techbuyer
15 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mick Payne is the Managing Director of Techbuyer’s UK operations. Techbuyer helps businesses maximise their IT budgets by supplying cost-effective n...
Episode 52 Elizabeth Knight – Repair Revolution
01 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Knight is an author, sustainability activist and founder of New York’s first Repair Café, and is the co-author (with John Wackman) of Rep...
Episode 51 – Jamie Butterworth of Circularity Capital
17 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie Butterworth is a partner at Circularity Capital, helping large investors, including financial institutions, global corporations and family offic...
Episode 50 – Thinking differently
03 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this season, we’ve featured another 9 amazing, talented people, helping to make the circular economy happen. Our guests have been from the USA, C...
Episode 49 – Ryan Edwards of Naked Innovations
21 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Edwards is Co-founder of Naked Innovations, an eclectic mix of entrepreneurial “co-creators, fresh-thinkers, disruptors, shakers and provocateu...
Episode 48 – Paraskevi Fotoglou of Camira Fabrics
07 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Paraskevi Fotoglou is Sustainability Engineer at Camira Fabrics, a UK textile manufacturing company for task and soft seating. Paraskevi has expertise...
Episode 47 Joanna Bingham of Footprints Africa
21 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joanna Bingham, the founding CEO of Footprints Africa, is focussed on using the circular economy to support sustainable, scalable and inclusive approa...
Episode 46 Gary Giles – OGEL
07 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gary Giles is another entrepreneur inspired by the circular economy. Gary set up his company, OGEL, to use a material that is quite difficult to recyc...
Episode 45 Peter Desmond African Circular Economy Network
24 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Peter is a circular economy coach, workshop facilitator and strategic advisor, and cofounder of the African Circular Economy Network. He helps busines...
Episode 44 Tamsin Chislett of Onloan
10 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Weetman talks to Tamsin Chislett, cofounder of fashion subscription startup Onloan, which has grown strongly this year despite lockdown. Onl...
Episode 43 Richard James MacCowan of Biomimicry Innovation Lab
20 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Richard is the Founder and Creative Director of the Biomimicry Innovation Lab, with a mission to inspire and share how the natural world can deliver u...
Episode 42 – Brian Bauer of Algramo
06 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Bauer explores how we can use circular approaches for plastic packaging, so we get the benefits of plastic, without the impacts of mismanaged pl...
Episode 41 Sandra Goldmark – Fixup and Fixation
22 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Have good stuff, not too much, mostly reclaimed, care for it, pass it on”. Catherine Weetman talks to Sandra Goldmark in the United States. Sandr...
Episode 40 – Sharing data and values
08 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We round up themes from the last nine episodes, exploring how data is the key to solving problems of waste and underused assets, and why aligning valu...
Episode 39 – Rob Thompson of Odyssey Innovation
24 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Thompson, of Odyssey Innovation in the UK, is an Multi-award winning Innovator, a Marine Conservationist, and a Social Entrepreneur. Rob started O...
Episode 38 – Zaqiya Cajee of SwopItup
10 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Zaqiya Cajee is a young entrepreneur in the UK who has set up a not-for-profit scheme. SwopItUp helps young people to swap their fashionable clothes, ...
Episode 37 – Lieke van Kerkoven of FLOOW2
26 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to Lieke van Kerkhoven, Co-founder of FLOOW2 Healthcare. Lieke aims to drive the global change towards a circular economy, by bringing the in...
Episode 36 – Dan Dicker of Circular&Co
13 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Catherine talks to Dan Dicker,the Founder and CEO of Circular&Co, the new brand name for ashortwalk Ltd and rCUP®. Dan began his ca...
Episode 35 Sophie Segal – the power of play
29 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to Sophie Segal, founder of the Reading chapter of the CEC, in the south of England. Sophie uses games to engage people in sustainability and ...
Episode 34 – Noreen Kam and Michael Brown of LUP Global
16 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Weetman talks to Noreen Kam and Michael Brown about the circular asset management solution they’ve developed for LUP Global’s customers....
Episode 33 – Greg Lavery of Rype Office
01 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to Greg Lavery of Rype Office, which remanufactures high quality office furniture. We hear why Greg decided that office furniture is ideal for...
Episode 32- Christian van Maaren of Excess Materials Exchange
19 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Christian van Maaren is co-founder of Excess Materials Exchange, based in the Netherlands. Excess Materials Exchange is saving the planet by running a...
Episode 31 – Tom Fecarotta of Rheaply
04 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rheaply’s mission is to make the world’s resources more discoverable and transferable through technology. Rheaply combines enterprise asset manage...
Episode 30 – What have we learned?
21 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We review the last 9 episodes, exploring key themes & summarising what we’ve learned. Plus, we hear from Geoff van Sonsbeeck, on womenswear brand Ba...
Episode 29 – Mabel Suglo of Dignified Wear
06 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’re talking to Mabel Suglo, the founder of Dignified Wear, a social enterprise in Ghana. It aims to economically empower people w...
Episode 28 (revised) Chris Diplock – The Thingery
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Diplock is the Founder and CEO of The Thingery, the parent organization of neighbourhood Thingery branches, and a leader in Vancouver’s collab...
Episode 27 Chris Hellawell – Edinburgh Tool Library
09 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Hellawell is founder and director of Edinburgh Tool Library, which works like a lending library, sharing tools rather than books. Chris is pas...
Episode 26 – Katie Briggs of the Textile Review
26 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Katie Briggs set up The Textile Review, to close the loop on fabric from the events sector. She has found customers who value that pre-used fabric, an...
Episode 25 Geoff van Sonsbeeck – Baukjen
12 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Geoff van Sonsbeeck is the Co-Founder and CEO behind the direct to consumer womenswear brands BAUKJEN and ISABELLA OLIVER, and has been at the forefro...
Episode 24 – Steve Haskew of Circular Computing
29 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Remanufacturing is one of the circular economy strategies that helps us keep products, components and materials ‘in the system. It means we can have...
Episode 23 Andy Bownds – Eco Brixs
15 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
EcoBrixs Mission is "To create green, environmentally friendly, sustainable solutions to lift people out of abject poverty in Uganda”, and it does t...
Episode 22 Bassam Huneidi – The Argeileh Project
01 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to entrepreneur and designer Bassam Huneidi, about his Argeileh Project. Bassam is a circular economy designer and strategist, and a graduate ...
Episode 21 Tom Ogonek – Close the Loop
16 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 21 with Tom Ogonek, Co-CEO of Close the Loop Inc. Tom joined Close the Loop in 2011 and oversees all aspects of global operations, building on...
Episode 20 – How to be a problem-hunter
02 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we focus on the ‘how’ of making your business circular, looking at the different ways people were getting to grips with the probl...
Episode 19 – Åsa Stenmarck of IVL on how to create circular behaviour
19 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to Åsa Stenmarck, of IVL, the Swedish Environmental Research Institute. Åsa works on projects that aim to create more sustainable consumptio...
Episode 18 – Eve Kekeh of Bundlee
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to Eve Kekeh, the founder of Bundlee, the UK’s first baby clothing rental subscription. Eve started Bundlee to give parents a sustainable al...
Episode 17 – Nancy Bocken of Homie
15 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy Bocken co-founded the company HOMIE, which is developing circular services for pay-per-use home appliances, starting with washing machines. Nanc...
Episode 16 – Sophie Thomas, of Thomas.Matthews ltd
01 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sophie is an established leader in communication and design, and in the investigation and promotion of circular economy design principles. She has bee...
Episode 15 – Matilda Jarbin of GIAB
17 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Matilda Jarbin, one of Sweden’s top young sustainability talents and Sustainability Manager of GIAB, a Swedish company with a business model based o...
Episode 14 – David Greenfield of Tech Takeback
03 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We hear from David Greenfield, about Tech Takeback, a partnership he set up to collect end-of-use consumer technology and get it back into the loop. ...
Episode 13 Beth Massa – ARK Reusables
20 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 13 we talk to Beth Massa, founder of Ozarka. Beth and her husband Michael have created a collection of food-to-go containers, called ARK R...
Episode 12 – David Bassetti of 3D Seed
17 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Bassetti is co-founder of 3D Seed. When David moved to Spain around 10 years ago, he noticed how much plastic was being wasted, and was frustra...
Episode 11 – Izzie Eriksen of ApparelXchange
22 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
ApparelXchange is a Scottish social enterprise aiming to make it easy to reuse school uniforms, instead of wasting them. ApparelXchange works with sch...
Episode 10 – Highlights from Series 1
08 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 10 is our first circular economy highlights compilation! Perfect listening to spark your ideas for building a better business in 2020. This ...
Episode 9 Lucy Antal – transforming our food systems
25 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We explore the food circular economy, with Lucy Antal of food campaigning charity Feedback Global. Lucy explains Feedback’s aim to regenerate natur...
Episode 8 Elaine Kerr – industrial symbiosis
11 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Elaine Kerr, Deputy Director of International Synergies Northern Ireland talks about industrial symbiosis and how it ‘oils the wheels’ of the circ...
Episode 7 Katie Whalen – fun and games with the circular economy
28 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Katie Whalen of In the Loop AB has developed two circular economy games, including the well-known In the Loop game for schools and businesses and the ...
Episode 6 Adam Fairweather – reimagine waste
14 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Fairweather and his partner Rosalie McMillan run Smile Plastics, a circular economy business that reimagines local waste streams to make beautifu...
Episode 5 Katie Beverley – Ecodesign
29 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ecodesign expert Katie Beverley describes herself as a ‘critical friend’ of the circular economy. We dig into Ecodesign principles to find out mo...
Episode 4 Jo Godden – recycled ocean plastics
16 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 4, Jo Godden talks to Catherine Weetman about some of the circular economy elements at the heart of her non-for-profit activewear brand, Ru...
Episode 3 Tom Harper – circular asset management
31 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Harper talks to Catherine Weetman about some of the circular economy projects he has introduced to Unusual Rigging Limited, including circular ass...
Episode 2 Linear economy and risks
30 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 2, we dig a bit deeper into the way we do business now, the linear economy, and why that’s creating problems for business, society and ou...
Episode 1 What is the circular economy?
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This first episode is a quick intro to explain what the circular economy is and why it’s important. We’ll explore how it helps create better prod...