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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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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.
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29 Sept 2026 · 24 min
Why $100 trillion wasn't enough, and what will actually move markets?
A hundred trillion dollars of capital lined up behind climate. It was never going to be enough. In part two, Jeremy Oppenheim tells Joe what actually moves a market, from Pakistan's solar boom to a copper mine in Mongolia, and why the voluntary playbook the movement leaned on for a decade has run its course.
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22 Sept 2026 · 20 min
Ten years in. Here’s what we got wrong.
Jeremy Oppenheim left a top job at the management consulting firm McKinsey&Co in 2016 to become a Founding Partner of and build SYSTEMIQ, at the high water mark of climate optimism. Then came Trump and Brexit. Ten years on, Joe asks him what the movement got right, and what it got badly wrong, from ignoring the politics of decline to vilifying the very incumbents it needed. And most importantly, what does this mean for how we think about what comes next?