Circular Economy Podcast
1) 169 Bailey Bestul: imaginative reuse of architectural components to create exciting and inspiring buildings
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 ...Show More
2) 168 Matt Paneitz of Long Way Home: Hero School – transforming trash into useful buildings
Long Way Home’s 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 ...Show More
3) 167 HaPPE Earth: circular, compostable PPE systems
Lisa and Mary O’Riordan 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...Show More
4) 166 Circularity Gap Report 2025: insights
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5) 165 Christina Schwartzkopf of Prolong: seamless solutions for circular aftercare and aftersales
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...Show More
6) 164 Louis De Jaeger: our futures depend on healthy soils
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 Jaeger—author of the ne...Show More
7) 163 Patrik Frisk of Reju: regenerating polyester textiles
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...Show More
8) 162 Rachel Bronstein and Barry Waddilove: Skills for Planet from the Design Council
It's episode 162 - we’re discussing design skills and why it’s crucial that design for circularity goes beyond the design of the product itself, to cover the materials, the customer experience, the su...Show More
9) 161 Dan Vukelich of AMDR: medical device reprocessing
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 t...Show More
10) 160 Systems and system value
One of recurring themes in the new edition of A Circular Economy Handbook (to be published in November 2025) is the importance of systems thinking and systems design. I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s bo...Show More