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The Circular Economy Show
Conversations about circular design, business models, policy and systems that eliminate waste and keep materials in use.
- Host
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation team
- Published by
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation
- Topic
- Circular Economy & Materials
- Format
- Interview
- Orientation
- Systems Change
- Themes
- Systems Thinking, Circular
- Made for
- Founder / Entrepreneur, Corporate Leader, Policymaker / Public Sector
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Latest episodes
Newest first
- Open episode
20 Oct 2026 · 24 min
What does circular tourism look like?
Tourism is on the COP31 agenda in Antalya, Türkiye, on 18 November, with zero waste and the circular economy now firmly part of the climate action conversation. So what does a circular economy for tourism look like in practice? This week on The Circular Economy Show, Pippa is joined by Patricia Dueñas from Iberostar Hotels & Resorts and Virginia Fernández-Trapa from UN Tourism. Together, they make the case that circular tourism needs local infrastructure, consistent policy, coordination at destination level and a proven business case. That makes the year ahead an important one. With 2027 named
- Open episode
13 Oct 2026 · 28 min
How to evolve (and how not to) with Zaid Hassan
Zaid Hassan has spent 25 years in systems change, and he thinks the field fooled itself. Beautiful diagrams that feel like progress and change nothing. Skills that AI will take first. Joe Iles asks him what actually works, and why he still ends his new book with three words: it's not that hard.
- Open episode
6 Oct 2026 · 30 min
The stretch problem no fashion company can solve alone
Most of our clothes contain stretch. That stretch usually comes from a fibre called elastane, which is one of the biggest barriers to recycling clothing at scale. In this episode of the Circular Economy Show, Seb Egerton-Read sits down with Georgia Parker of Fashion for Good and Lewis Shuler of Paradise Textiles (Alpine Group) to discuss why the industry reached for elastane by default rather than by intent.