Best Catherine Weetman Podcasts (2025)

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162 Rachel Bronstein and Barry Waddilove: Skills for Planet from the Design Council 1:02:43

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It’s episode 162 – we’re discussing design skills and why it’s crucial that design for circularity goes beyond the design of the product itself, to cover the materials, the customer experience, the supply chain, the collection of data for KPIs, and much more. Helping us think about this are Rachel Bronstein, a Senior Programme Manager at the Design…

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161 Dan Vukelich of AMDR: medical device reprocessing 51:30

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Dan Vukelich, President of the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors, has spent 25 years campaigning and working to encourage reuse and remanufacturing of ‘single use’ medical devices, first in the USA and now in Europe and other countries. To give you a feel for the scale of this, in 2024, over 55 million single-use devices were reprocessed a…

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160 Systems and system value 35:29

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One of recurring themes in the new edition of A Circular Economy Handbook (to be published in November 2025) is the importance of systems thinking and systems design. I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s book, This is Strategy, and he says successful strategies depend on two things: being conscious of the change we seek to make and the systems that can a…

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159 Kyle Wiens of iFixit: the rewards of repairability 30:47

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Kyle Wiens is the co-founder of iFixit, the international repair community known for open-source repair manuals and product teardown. Kyle is also one of my circular economy heroes! Since it started back in 2003, iFixit has empowered hundreds of millions of people to repair their broken stuff. Kyle led the international coalition that legalized Rig…

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#158 Steve Wilson of Compostify: bioplastics that enrich the planet 36:02

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Compostify makes truly home-compostable plant pots and other bioplastic solutions designed to nourish the earth. Its products naturally break down without leaving harmful residues, and Compostify says this packaging enriches the planet, rather than polluting it. Steve Wilson is the Co-founder and CEO of Compostify, with a background in scaling tech…

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157 Liz Bui of Yulex: safer, sustainable materials 57:10

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Liz Bui takes us behind the scenes at Yulex, a material science company that’s replacing extremely useful, but problematic petroleum-based products with natural rubber alternatives. Liz Bui is Chief Executive Officer at YULEX, based in the USA. She began her career in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry where she spent 20 years in senior …

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156 Marcus Feldthus: the Post-Growth Guide 52:31

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We zoom out to the economy part of the circular economy to talk about the Post Growth concept with Marcus Feldthus. Together with Oscar Haumann, Marcus founded the Post Growth Guide back in 2023, as a learning space for people who want to understand the social and planetary boundaries so as to make real sustainability strategies, avoiding greenwash…

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155 Martin Tomitsch and Steve Baty: Life-centred design 57:23

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Martin Tomitsch and Steve Baty have written a brilliant book called Designing Tomorrow: strategic design tactics to change your practice, organization and planetary impact, published earlier this year. Martin Tomitsch is a Professor and Head of the Transdisciplinary School at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). As a design academic and educa…

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154 Loic Le Fouest of Clarasys: designing circular customer experiences 49:24

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Loic Le Fouest is a leading expert in Customer Experience (CX) with a strong track record of driving customer-centric transformation across the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors. As the head of the CX practice at Clarasys in the UK, Loic helps organisations design customer experiences that drive loyalty, innovation, and sustainable busine…

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153 Anette Timmer of DESSO: the beauty of circularity 50:04

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We hear insights from Anette Timmer of DESSO by Tarkett, a leading carpet brand that was an early adopter of circular economy principles. Anette Timmer began her journey with DESSO almost 18 years ago and has played a central role in the business’ transition to a circular economy model. Anette helps to bridge the gap between the vision and executio…

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152 Markus Terho: the Lifestyle Test 56:27

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Markus Terho tells us about the Lifestyle Test, a web-based app for anyone who’s concerned about global warming and wants to be a part of the solution by adopting a positive and sustainable lifestyle. It’s already available in 10 countries across the EU and has 350,000 users.Markus describes himself as a corporate responsibility veteran, with over …

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151 Clarissa Morawski of Reloop Platform: practical policies for circular packaging 45:31

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Clarissa Morawski, CEO of Reloop Platform works with governments, industry stakeholders and NGOs to develop policies for a packaging circular economy. Clarissa brings nearly 30 years of technical, analytical and communications experience in waste reduction operations and policies. She started her own consulting business in 1998 and co-founded the R…

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150 Catherine Weetman: Creating conditions for circularity 44:44

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I’ve been reflecting on what’s come up over the last series, in episodes 141 to 149. How do we create the conditions for our ideas to spread? Do we fully understand the systems that circular products or services will be embedded in or affected by, how those work, and what keeps them going? It’s likely there will be multiple systems, and some of the…

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149 Giulia Ziino of CircularPlace: generate value from underused assets 44:05

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Giulia Ziino is a co-founder of CircularPlace, a digital platform that helps organizations generate value by reusing and repurposing underutilized products and equipment. These services are needed more than ever, by a wide range of organizations. The pandemic, working from home and now hybrid working upturned the entire concept of workspaces, and o…

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148 Tim Forslund of Sitra: circular solutions for nature 46:40

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Tim Forslund works on the circular economy at the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra. As a key part of his work at Sitra, Tim has analysed how circular economy strategies can help tackle biodiversity loss, including through the circular bioeconomy. We’ll be talking about Sitra’s latest handbook for businesses, CIRCULAR SOLUTIONS FOR NATURE, which helps …

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147 Dr Alexandra Leeper: smarter ways to create value 48:35

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Dr Alexandra Leeper, the CEO of the Iceland Ocean Cluster is passionate about the sustainable use of ocean resources. She’s working as a scientist intrapreneur in the blue and circular economies, drawing on diverse experiences from working all over the world in universities, consultancies, and at sea. Alexandra has a background in marine resources …

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146 Dr Monika Hauck: making repairs easy and fashionable 48:47

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Entrepreneur Dr. Monika Hauck is tapping into the emotional charge we feel after getting something repaired, and using that to revolutionize how we choose and care for our clothing and accessories.Dr. Monika Hauck is the founder of Repair Rebels, a digital B2C & B2B fashion repair platform that’s a pioneer solution in the German market, with a goal…

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145 Evolena de Wilde of Faircado: your AI-powered second-hand shopping assistant 44:57

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Evolena de Wilde d’Estmael is co-founder & CEO of Faircado, a Berlin-based startup that provides the first AI-powered second-hand shopping assistant in Europe. Faircado’s technology helps people find the best second-hand alternatives to what they are searching for online. Driven by the mission to reduce global waste and support the shift to a circu…

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144 Chris Allen of Decathlon: ever-evolving circular design 54:42

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Chris Allen, Sustainability Leader and Head of Circular Business Development at Decathlon UK. You’ve probably heard of Decathlon, which is the world’s largest sporting goods retailer, with over 1,700 stores in more than 70 countries. It’s a family-owned company, founded in 1976, and inspired by the belief that the best sports products should be acc…

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143 Michael Colarossi – Digital Product Passports 49:31

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Michael Colarossi of Avery Dennison explains how Digital Product Passports can be a key enabler in the transition to a circular economy.Michael is head of Enterprise Sustainability at Avery Dennison, which specializes in global materials science and digital identification solutions. As part of the the leadership team, Michael is responsible for env…

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142 Anna De Matos – igniting circular communities 43:16

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Anna De Matos is the founder of several community-focused sharing initiatives, and a force of nature.Originally from Brazil, Anna De Matos went to university in the UK and moved to Iceland in 2017. Inspired by a visit to Toronto's tool library, Anna started a tool library and repair café, and managed to bootstrap and crowdfund her way to establishi…

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141 Joel Tasche: scaleable solutions to plastic pollution 51:24

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Joel Tasche founded CleanHub, a Berlin-based company that provides a scalable solution to plastic pollution. CleanHub connects coastal communities to proper waste collection in places where that doesn’t exist, at the same time creating safe and dignified jobs. Brands can support the mission by funding the collection of waste that otherwise wouldn’t…

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140 Catherine Weetman: focusing on fuel AND friction 46:00

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Are we focused on adding more fuel to get the circular economy going – when, really, the problem is too much friction?Those terms stuck with me a few years ago, from a book helping people to get new ideas going, and succeeding, by looking more closely at the 'frictions' that create resistance. The book, The Human Element is written by organisationa…

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139 Peter McCafferty: supporting circular businesses 49:39

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Peter McCafferty works on Zero Waste Scotland’s Circular Economy Business Support Service (CEBS). These services were launched back in 2017, and since then, Peter has worked with over 200 SMEs and large organisations, so he’s got a wealth of experience and insights to share with us, especially on the fuel and friction around the circular economy.Ze…

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138 Rubén Abruña: keeping our poop in the loop 1:00:12

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Award-winning documentary film maker Rubén Abruña helps us dig into one of the oldest problems in civil society…All around the world, there are serious problems caused by the various ways we deal with our toilet waste – all the poop and pee we humans create every day. We waste drinking water - Flushing toilets use massive amounts of water – for exa…

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162 Rachel Bronstein and Barry Waddilove: Skills for Planet from the Design Council 1:02:43

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161 Dan Vukelich of AMDR: medical device reprocessing 51:30

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160 Systems and system value 35:29

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159 Kyle Wiens of iFixit: the rewards of repairability 30:47

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#158 Steve Wilson of Compostify: bioplastics that enrich the planet 36:02

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157 Liz Bui of Yulex: safer, sustainable materials 57:10

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156 Marcus Feldthus: the Post-Growth Guide 52:31

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155 Martin Tomitsch and Steve Baty: Life-centred design 57:23

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154 Loic Le Fouest of Clarasys: designing circular customer experiences 49:24

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153 Anette Timmer of DESSO: the beauty of circularity 50:04

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152 Markus Terho: the Lifestyle Test 56:27

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151 Clarissa Morawski of Reloop Platform: practical policies for circular packaging 45:31

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150 Catherine Weetman: Creating conditions for circularity 44:44

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149 Giulia Ziino of CircularPlace: generate value from underused assets 44:05

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148 Tim Forslund of Sitra: circular solutions for nature 46:40

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147 Dr Alexandra Leeper: smarter ways to create value 48:35

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146 Dr Monika Hauck: making repairs easy and fashionable 48:47

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145 Evolena de Wilde of Faircado: your AI-powered second-hand shopping assistant 44:57

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144 Chris Allen of Decathlon: ever-evolving circular design 54:42

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143 Michael Colarossi – Digital Product Passports 49:31

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142 Anna De Matos – igniting circular communities 43:16

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141 Joel Tasche: scaleable solutions to plastic pollution 51:24

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140 Catherine Weetman: focusing on fuel AND friction 46:00

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139 Peter McCafferty: supporting circular businesses 49:39

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138 Rubén Abruña: keeping our poop in the loop 1:00:12