Best Catherine Weetman Podcasts (2024)

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127 Yann Toutant: getting started with As-a-Service 50:53

12d ago50:53

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Yann Toutant is the founder of Black Winch, which helps businesses understand the opportunities, practicalities and benefits of shifting to ‘as a service’ models, and supports them in making it happen. Yann has been implementing subscription-based models for hardware in the ICT industry for 25 years, including over a decade as CEO of Econocom’s Dut…

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126 Ruth Taylor: closing our circular values gap 47:16

26d ago47:16

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Ruth Taylor of the Common Cause Foundation guides us through the field of social psychology, to explore how our personal values drive behaviour, and what that means for sustainability and the circular economy. Catherine Weetman says “I recently completed ‘Values 101’, a short course run by the Common Cause Foundation. It opened my eyes to a whole n…

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125 Walter R Stahel: signs of circular progress 52:01

1M ago52:01

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Professor Walter R Stahel is widely acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of what is now known as the circular economy. Catherine Weetman says: I first heard Walter speak at an circular economy event in London, back in 2015, and then had the opportunity to work with him as on the SFB for the Circular Economy Alliance. We wrote a paper togethe…

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124 Share Shed: the world’s first travelling library of things 37:09

2M ago37:09

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Mirella Ferraz is co-founder of Share Shed, the world’s first travelling library of things. The Share Shed van visits rural communities, so people can borrow a wide range of useful things, including tools, household appliances, camping and gardening equipment, sewing machines, suitcases and much more! Share Shed aims to: Help people save money, spa…

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123 Topolytics: making waste visible, verifiable and valuable 53:18

2M ago53:18

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We explore why it’s important for business to map, and understand their waste flows: what it is, specifically; where it comes from and goes to; how much there is – and why!; and to understand the opportunities for wasting less and circulating more value. Topolytics is a data analytics business that is making the world’s waste visible, verifiable an…

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122 Iain McKechnie: steps to a services-led strategy 49:17

3M ago49:17

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Iain McKechnie of the Advanced Services Group helps clients develop services-led strategies, improving circularity and outcomes for the businesses and their customers. The market for services, including rental, subscriptions and ‘X-as-a-service’ is growing rapidly, both for business to business and business to consumer markets, and services can be …

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121 Claire O’Sullivan and Kitty Wilson Brown: Contemporary Hempery 44:50

3M ago44:50

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Claire O’Sullivan and Kitty Wilson Brown are two inspiring people who are passionate about the properties and potential of hemp, especially for textiles. Their journey together led them to found a UK business, Contemporary Hempery. Hemp has amazing potential, for a wide range of products, and it’s brilliant for regenerative farming practices – so w…

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120 Priorities are changing 42:18

4M ago42:18

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People’s priorities are changing, as we realise more stuff doesn’t make us happier– so how can businesses thrive by doing better, with less? In this episode, Catherine Weetman suggests it’s time to bust one of the myths of the modern economy – people don’t want more and stuff! Priorities are changing, people are realising that more stuff doesn’t ma…

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119 BONUS Ken Webster: the circular ECONOMY! Part 2 54:44

4M ago54:44

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This is the 2nd part of Catherine’s conversation with Ken Webster, one of the foremost thinkers in the circular economy field, where we explore concepts for a critical aspect that’s being ignored – the economy itself! In this episode, we go deeper into the possibilities offered by a universal basic dividend, especially as we move to a world where a…

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119 Ken Webster: the circular ECONOMY! 54:17

4M ago54:17

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This episode is different – Ken Webster is a leading thinker in the circular economy field – we explore concepts for a critical aspect that’s being ignored – the economy itself! Catherine says: Ken Webster is right up there as one of my CE heroes, and is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost thinkers in the field. From 2010 – 2018, Ken was Hea…

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118 Ann Stevenson: minding our language 41:48

5M ago41:48

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Let’s talk about how we talk about the circular economy – the language we use, and whether it’s helping us… or getting in the way. Ann Stevenson is the circular economy lead at Resource Futures, an employee-owned and non-profit distributing BCorp environmental consultancy in the UK. Ann has been working in the field of environmental consultancy for…

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117 James Rigg: a refurbishment revolution for electricals 50:00

5M ago50:00

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James Rigg is CEO of Trojan Electronics in Wales, and has a wealth of expertise in value-adding circular solutions for electrical and electronics manufacturers and retailers. James has built on his experience across retail and more recently, leading growth across the Buy It Direct Group, and is now focussed on expanding Trojan Electronics Circular …

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116 Chuck Fuerst: circularity for product returns 43:29

6M ago43:29

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Chuck Fuerst is Chief Marketing Officer for software provider ReverseLogix. ReverseLogix is the only end-to-end, centralized, and fully integrated returns management system built specifically for retail, eCommerce, manufacturing and 3PL organizations. The ReverseLogix platform facilitates, manages, and reports on the entire returns’ lifecycle.When …

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115 Paddy Le Flufy: Building future-fit systems 46:03

6M ago46:03

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We’re exploring the broader context of a future-fit economy, asking questions like:How do we create the conditions for circular solutions to gain traction? What’s holding us back, particularly when we think about our economic systems, and the way companies are set up?In today’s episode, I’m talking to Paddy Le Flufy about his book, Building Tomorro…

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114 Daniel Kietzer: making resources discoverable & reusable 41:39

7M ago41:39

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Daniel Kietzer is Director of Ecosystem Growth at Rheaply, a digital sharing platform scaling reuse by making resources discoverable, easily transferable and more valuable.Rheaply was started in 2016, and has won lots of awards, including Most Innovative Reuse Company at the Reusies in 2021. It’s backed by a number of early-stage investors, includi…

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113 Steven Bethell: systemic solutions to the crisis of stuff 52:19

7M ago52:19

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Steven Bethell is a thought leader and pioneer in the post-consumer textile space for over 20 years, who’s creating innovative and relevant solutions to the crisis of stuff.Steven is co-founder of the Bank and Vogue family of companies, which includes a major remanufacturing plant where the circular economy for textiles is brought to life. Taking p…

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112 Fiona Dear: reviving repair and reuse for our tech 47:17

8M ago47:17

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Fiona Dear is a Co-Director at The Restart Project, which aims to keep our electronic technology in use for longer through repair and reuseBy Catherine Weetman

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111 Sara Howard: symbiotic circular ceramics 48:34

8M ago48:34

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How might we design and make ceramics in a circular economy? Ceramic products make our lives better in all kinds of ways. Some have been around for centuries (think bricks, tiles, pottery), and some are much more modern, in microchips and more.To help us learn about circular ceramics, we’re going to meet Sara Howard, a very impressive and award-win…

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110 Katie Beverley: designing a circular economy 58:48

9M ago58:48

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Are we designing a circular economy – or just designing circular products and materials? Today we’re catching up with Dr. Katie Beverley. Katie is a Senior Research Officer at PDR International Centre for Design and Research, at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She works with academic partners and the public and private sector, to embed ecodesign, …

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109 Janina Nieper – Connecting new designs to leftover materials 37:33

9M ago37:33

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Janina Nieper is an Architect and Designer, working at Furnify, a design agency in the Netherlands.Janina Nieper is passionate about concepts that promote the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants, including using the Circular Economy to help us stay within planetary boundaries. At Furnify, a company dedicated to creating circular spaces, Ja…

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108 Sian Sutherland – fixing plastics can fix so much else… 53:29

10M ago53:29

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In the 2nd part of the conversation with Sian Sutherland, co-founder of A Plastic Planet and PlasticFree.com, Sian tells Catherine Weetman why, instead of seeing a miserable picture of the future, we can reinvent a better, brighter future. As Sian says, by "fixing the plastic crisis, we will fix so much else" A Plastic Planet is one of the most rec…

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107 Sian Sutherland – plastic is last century’s material – what’s next? 45:19

10M ago45:19

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Sian Sutherland, co-founder of A Plastic Planet, tells Catherine Weetman why there are compelling reasons to design plastic out of our lives, and how and PlasticFree.com helps us do that...Plastic is embedded in pretty much every part of our lives. The plastics industry promotes it as the perfect material for thousands of products, being cheap, lig…

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106 Yael Shemer of Tulu – everyday essentials on-demand 50:23

10M ago50:23

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In episode 106, we hear from another disruptive start up, helping people ‘get more, from less’ - shrinking the footprint of production and consumption by improving the utilization of under-used objects. Today, I’m talking to Yael Shemer, an environmental entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief customer officer of TULU. Tulu is an on-demand servic…

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105 Gene Homicki – getting more from less with MyTurn 52:48

11M ago52:48

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We’re going to hear about some amazing software that helps with the 2nd of the 3 key circular strategies I advise people to use… getting more, from less. Finding ways to get more use out of under-utitlized objects can have big benefits, especially by reducing costs. When we think about it, there are probably lots of things – both tools and toys – t…

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104 Richard Burnett – Diversity and packaging innovation 45:40

11M ago45:40

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Innovation and diversification is key to the success of James Cropper, a 6th generation family business, based in the English Lake District. Richard Burnett is Head of Technology and Innovation at James Cropper, a prestige supplier of custom-made paper products to many of the world’s leading luxury brands, art galleries and designers. Richard overs…

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103 Algramo – Refill the future 57:44

12M ago57:44

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Reusable packaging startup Algramo is going from strength to strength, and we hear from Brian Bauer and Chris Baker on why customers in Chile, the US and the UK are buying into this.Algramo’s founder, Jose Manuel Moller, came up with a brilliant idea for reusable packaging to help what he called the poverty tax, paid by people who shopped at conven…

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102 Jo Spolton – making second-hand our first choice 46:13

1y ago46:13

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Jo Spolton is the founder of Rumage, a brilliant online platform that makes it super-easy for people to find – and buy - exactly what they’re looking for across a wide range of secondhand marketplaces.Jo is a Fine Art graduate and was a professional racing sailor. Her adventures when sailing around the world opened a window, showing how badly globa…

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101 Circular is better for people, planet and profit! 37:04

1y ago37:04

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Episode 101 seems like a good time to update my ‘what is the circular economy’ summary from Episode 1, back in 2019. In that first episode, I outlined the 5 components in my CE Framework, one of the core themes in A CE Handbook. Those 5 components are product design, safe, sustainable materials, circular processes, recovery flows, and business mode…

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100 Catherine Weetman – never too old to be bold 50:53

1y ago50:53

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Catherine Weetman shares a bit of her backstory, including why she ditched her corporate career to help businesses get clear on how going circular is better for people, planet AND profit.Today’s episode is a bit different – Peter Desmond, who has been a great mentor and supporter over the last five years, was encouraging me to tell people a bit mor…

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058 - Dr Marcell Vollmer - Tech in Supply Chain, and the Sustainability Shift 59:58

1y ago59:58

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Dr. Marcell Vollmer, a renowned expert in the fields of digitalization, innovation, and sustainability. Marcell is a sought-after speaker and author that has dedicated his career to helping companies and individuals navigate the rapidly changing world of technology and business. He is passionate about helping others achieve success and is also a fr…

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99 Ben Jeffreys – clean, low-carbon, circular cooking for all 45:33

1y ago45:33

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Ben Jeffreys, co-founder of ATEC, is a multi award-winning social entrepreneur making better things happen. Right now, he’s focused on decarbonising cooking 🍳, which is a leading cause of illness and death for women and children, The WHO says around a third of the global population cook using open fires or inefficient stoves fuelled by kerosene, bi…

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98 Barry O’Kane – Software as a circular enabler 39:21

1y ago39:21

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It’s episode 98, and Catherine Weetman is talking to Barry O’Kane about software, one of the key enablers for circular economy solutions. Barry O’Kane founded HappyPorch, a software engineering specialist and consultancy (and now a certified B Corp) in 2015, and I met Barry a few years ago when he asked me to help him find examples of software that…

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97 Alice Mah – unpicking plastics propaganda 49:26

1y ago49:26

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IT’S EPISODE 97, and today we’ll be talking about plastics, a familiar circular economy topic, from someone with a someone with a less familiar background… Alice Mah is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, in the UK, and she’ll help us unpick the propaganda about plastics and their role in a circular economyI came across Alice’s wor…

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057 - Catherine Weetman - A Circular Economy Handbook 1:04:51

1y ago1:04:51

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International speaker, author and business advisor, Catherine Weetman helps people use circular, regenerative strategies to help their business thrive by creating, capturing and circulating more value for everyone.Catherine Weetman Circular Economy talks, workshops and coaching. Her award-winning A Circular Economy Handbook, published by Kogan Page…

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96 Nick Oettinger – keeping mattresses in circulation 49:41

1y ago49:41

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Nick Oettinger is Founder and CEO of The Furniture Recycling Group (TFR Group) in the UK. Nick has 12 years’ experience in recycling and waste management. He was previously Managing Director of a specialist construction company before moving into the waste and recycling sector, where he spent five years as an improvement consultant and nine years i…

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95 Simone Andersson – social value from circular e-waste solutions 38:41

1+ y ago38:41

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Simone Andersson is Chief Commercial Officer at WEEE Centre, a Kenyan social enterprise that’s been expanding safe e-waste management and circular solutions across East Africa, since 2012. Simone’s background is in communication and sustainability action around waste and water management, and before joining the WEEE Centre she was at RISE (Research…

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056 - Vivian Tai - Digital Innovation and Supply Chain Standards 51:19

1+ y ago51:19

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Vivian Tai believes that the identification of everything makes anything possible. She says she would have an obsession with the convergence of emerging technology, identity, and sustainability. Vivian is currently working on the future of product identity, data carriers, and the circular economy at GS1 US. She graduated Summa Cum Laude Graduate fr…

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94 David Peck – navigating the risk of Critical Raw Materials 1:04:50

1+ y ago1:04:50

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David Peck, Associate Professor at TU Delft, explains why we need to know more about critical raw materials - what they are used in, and how we might navigate the future challenges they present.David Peck is Associate Professor, Climate Design & Sustainability, Circular Built Environment and Critical Materials, Faculty of Architecture and the Built…

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055 - Tom Raftery - Supply Chain Evangelism 1:00:00

1+ y ago1:00:00

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Tom fell in love with computers and set up a software company while studying for a PhD in Plant Science in 1991. He has since worked for a number of companies at Global VP/CTO level. He recently left SAP after having been recruited in there in 2016 at Global VP level, where he worked as a Futurist, and Innovation Evangelist. Prior to that, he compl…

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054 - Jim Tompkins - The State of Supply Chain in 2022 and Beyond 56:48

1+ y ago56:48

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Jim Tompkins is an international authority on designing and implementing end-to-end supply chains. Jim is currently Chairman of Tompkins Ventures and Tompkins Leadership. He has started 15 businesses that have done over $2 billion in worldwide revenue during his 50-year career while enhancing the profitable growth of numerous companies, giving him …

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93 Guglielmo Mazza – helping communities refuse packaging waste 50:19

1+ y ago50:19

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Guglielmo Mazzà is an environmental engineer and social entrepreneur, and the co-founder and CEO of ReFuse, a social enterprise based in Beirut [Lebanon] that offers community-based solid waste management services. Guglielmo worked in development initiatives and humanitarian response in the field of water, sanitation, hygiene and financial inclusio…

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053 - Scott Downes - Invisible AI-driven Outsourcing 1:00:57

1+ y ago1:00:57

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Scott is relentlessly curious and resists being defined too narrowly. He’s a technologist and a businessman, a programmer and a designer, a musician and a writer, a father and a coach. Scott is a veteran CTO who has built and led engineering, product, design, and marketing teams at multiple growth stage startups. He’s also served as a coach and adv…

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052 - Pawan Gupta & Abhishek Sharma - Revolutionizing Fashion Supply Chain 1:08:30

1+ y ago1:08:30

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Fashinza is an AI-driven B2B marketplace for global fashion supply chains. They make it exceptionally easy for international brands to access design to delivery in as fast as 4 weeks with very low minimums. Fashinza offers access to a transparent production process that can be monitored 24/7 with 100% control enabled by their revolutionary FactoryO…

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