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E-waste is our fastest-growing waste stream, expanding five times faster than we can recycle it. But it's also one of our greatest untapped...
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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation welcomes you to The Circular Economy Show, a podcast about a new way to design, make, and use things, and how we can build an economy that's fit for the 21st c...

E-waste is our fastest-growing waste stream, expanding five times faster than we can recycle it. But it's also one of our greatest untapped...

Why is it that despite the success of individual circular business models, we simply aren’t seeing a wider shift across the entire economy?...

In a world of rising tariffs and supply chain disruption, could circularity be one of the smartest business moves a company can make? Daniel...

What if buying second-hand felt exactly like buying new? In this episode of the Circular Economy Show, we explore how IKEA is embedding circ...

In a circular economy, products may not be sold just once, but multiple times. This enables businesses to generate more revenue from one ite...

We are currently seeing a shift where circular economy policy is moving out of purely environmental ministries and into the hands of economi...

Biodiversity loss is accelerating at an alarming rate, but could circular economy solutions help turn things around? In this episode of The...

Over the past decade, leading businesses have shown that progress on plastic pollution is possible. And while individual company action has...

What do some of the more surprising stories of scale teach us about implementing the circular economy? In this episode of the Circular Econo...

Welcome back to The Circular Economy Show and another episode of Circular Snapshots, where we unpack the headlines shaping the transition to...

Wen-Yu Weng, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Critical Minerals Lead, joins Lou to explain why critical minerals are currently taking centre...

Join Seb as he speaks to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s CEO, Jonquil Hackenberg about the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for...

It's been a pivotal year for the circular economy, full of big ideas and practical breakthroughs. Before we fully dive into 2026, we’re hitt...

It’s easy to look at the news headlines and feel like everything is going backwards, but in this episode we ask you to look a little deeper...

Recorded live at Climate Week New York, in this episode we ask ‘why should retailers embrace the circular economy?’ The global food system i...

Recorded live during Climate Week NYC, this episode explores how technology can accelerate the transition to a circular economy, not as a bo...

This is the fourth and final part of our mini series on the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s new report: How not to fail: Avoiding 10 common pit...

Circular business models can drive new revenue streams, build brand strength, customer loyalty, and market traction, while also unlocking va...

Circular business models often fail when they’re designed without factoring how the business works, what the customers want, and what the pr...

What makes circular business models fail to scale? In this new four-part series, we’ll be exploring the common mistakes businesses make on t...

Have the current political and economic shocks actually created enormous opportunities for change? Can businesses currently working on trans...

Scaling the circular economy requires more companies to launch circular products and services, but many competitors transitioning towards th...

It was a busy summer for the circular economy. In this episode, Seb brings you up to speed with some of the headlines and all in less than 1...

As Climate Week NYC kicks off, what’s momentum like for the circular economy in North America? In this episode, Pippa’s joined by Danielle H...

Waste and pollution aren’t accidents—they’re the result of design. Which means we can design them out. Design is where it all begins – and w...

Amid rising emissions, rising temperatures, and the rapid rollout of material-intensive renewable energy systems that promise to curb them b...

Could rethinking our cities through a circular lens be the key to future-proofing Europe whilst offering exciting investment opportunities?...

The circular economy can no longer be sidelined as a ‘nice to have’. Not only can it future-proof individual business operations, it can als...

In this episode we’re bringing together two top-of-mind topics: the scramble for critical minerals, and how circular economy strategies can...

Building circular business models - where products are rented, repaired, resold and remade - is key to transforming our economy from a take,...

How do we keep clothes in use at their highest value and make money without having to make new clothes? In this episode of The Circular Econ...

In this episode of the Circular Economy Show, our guests Georgie Rose from Selfridges and Simon Davies from VISA tell us how they have been...

For years, marketers have been helping to shape how consumers think and feel about products that are driving the linear economy. However in...

In this episode of the Circular Economy Show, we explore the intersection between fashion, business, and technology - revealing why shoes ar...

To truly transform the food system, we need retailers to sell food that enables nature to thrive. In this episode, learn how leading retaile...

The circular economy is one of the most powerful tools we have to tackle the climate crisis—but you wouldn’t know it from the carbon account...

The circular economy is no longer just a theory; it’s becoming a reality across an increasing number of sectors, from tech and materials to...

In order to bring the circular economy to life, we need more circular economists. But what does that mean? Who might these circular economis...

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Big Food Redesign Challenge set out to demonstrate how redesigning products in line with circular economy p...

The idea that stories are powerful is an uncontroversial idea. But what does it really mean to harness story to shift mindsets and inspire p...

The future of food is not predetermined – it's being shaped by the decisions being made today. This episode challenges food industry decisio...

How can businesses sell circular propositions in a world that's rapidly changing? This episode of the Circular Economy Show tackles the mark...

Circular business models hold immense potential to reshape the fashion industry. In this episode, we explore the exciting opportunities for...

Find out about the critical role that the circular economy can play in the shift to renewable energy, pairing the EU’s decarbonisation agend...

The food industry is one of the biggest drivers of biodiversity loss and accounts for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. But what i...

Circular design is a hot topic, but moving beyond the buzzwords to practical implementation can be a real challenge. In this episode, we go...

In this episode of the Circular Economy Show we meet Zero Waste Scotland, who are working with government, businesses, and communities to ma...

How do we move from pilots and beyond the ESG hype bubble to scale the implementation of the circular economy and how do businesses lead in...

Join Fin, Lou and Pippa from the Circular Economy Show as we look back at a year in the circular economy. In this episode, the team shares h...

In this episode of the Circular Economy Show we discuss Arda Biomaterials ' journey of transforming beer by-products into sustainable materi...