The Circular Economy Show Podcast

This year on the Circular Economy Show Podcast we’ve heard from people working across many different industries, from farming to fashion, policy to plastics. In this episode, we explore some of our favourite moments from 2023. Thanks for joining us this year. We’ll be back in 2024 with more stories from the circular economy. If you’d like to get in touch with us, you can email us at podcast@emf.orgHave a listen to all episodes mentioned during this episode: Ep 104: Could we grow a building? How Biohm is using biotechnologies to advance the circular economyEp 105: Creating better packaging from seaweed with NotplaEp 107: Is there a better way to produce our food? | Redesigning Food seriesEp 117: Es Devlin on the power of art to inspire changeEp 126: Changing the way we buy and use technology with Back MarketEp 132: How Troquer became Latin America’s leading preloved fashion start-up

In the final episode of our fashion series, we go to London to meet Patrick McDowell, a pioneering British high-end designer who has been applying circular design for fashion since starting their career. They tell us about their journey and their vision for the future of the fashion industry.Learn more about Patrick McDowell’s brand and journeyHave a look at Patrick's collection for Rambert Dance Company

In the second episode of our fashion series, we head to Mexico City to meet Troquer’s co-founders, Lucia and Ytzia. They discuss how they’ve become Latin America’s leading resale marketplace for quality fashion items and the challenges they’ve faced on their journey.Learn more about Troquer

Welcome to our new fashion series, where we'll meet three companies working towards a circular economy for fashion. In this first episode, we visit Europe's largest circular fashion hub, Advanced Clothing Solutions (ACS), to learn how they’re helping businesses to make money without making new clothes. Learn more about ACS

Reuben Chorley, Sustainable Industrial Operations Director at Jaguar Land Rover explains how i-Pace Jaguar car batteries are given a second life in renewable energy sector. The importance of collaboration in achieving a circular economy, repurposing batteries for energy storage, and collaboration in the automotive industry are discussed. Jaguar Land Rover's journey towards a circular economy model is highlighted, focusing on recycling opportunities, promoting renewable resources, and driving collaboration and regulation for a sustainable future.

Time for something a little different in this episode! Join us as we head to Copenhagen to meet Julie Hjort, Director of Sustainable Transformation at the Danish Design Center. From her office in the Danish capital, Julie reflects on how design is key to creating new pathways towards a circular economy, and how she works with her multi-disciplinary team to find solutions to tricky problems.  Learn more about the Danish Design Center

In this episode, we’ll join Gianmarco, Luigi and Cristina from the Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo to learn how the circular economy has become a strategic priority for them and discuss the critical connection between the circular economy, biodiversity loss and climate mitigation in relation to finance. Learn more about the Foundation’s work on financing the circular economy.

In 2018, the Foundation alongside the UN Environment Programme launched the Global Commitment, the biggest global voluntary effort to tackle plastic waste and pollution. In this podcast episode, we hear from Sander Defruyt, Plastics Lead at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, who reflects on the progress and learnings to date from five years of the Global Commitment, the need for a legally binding global treaty to end plastic pollution, and what makes him feel optimistic about the last five years. Learn more about the Global Commitment Five Years In

Welcome to The Circular Economy Show Podcast.Join the team from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation as each week we explore the innovations that can address issues such as climate change, waste, pollution, and biodiversity loss.Get ready to be inspired, informed, and empowered. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode.

In this week’s episode, Jess Mevel travels to Bordeaux, France, to learn how Back Market is working to make refurbished tech better than new.Back Market is an online marketplace founded in 2014, who are on a mission to help make refurbished electronic products more reliable, affordable, and better than new.