The Circular Economy Podcast
Catherine Weetman interviews the inspiring people who are making the circular economy happen.
We explore how circular, regenerative and fair solutions are better for people, planet and prosperity, and we’ll hear from entrepreneurs & business owners, social enterprises, and leading thinkers.
We’re ranked in the top 5% of ALL podcasts globally, with listeners in over 130 countries. If you’d like to recommend a circular economy business, start-up or social enterprise as a guest, please let us know!
Scroll down to see recent episodes below – each episode has accompanying show notes, a player and links to the people and resources we mention.
Latest episode
174 Sydney Harris and Jennifer Carrigan of Upstream: effective, equitable reuse systems
Looking for a podcast episode on a specific sector, or for a particular circular economy strategy? We’ve created an index page with an interactive spreadsheet. You can sort, filter and search for relevant episodes. We’ll try to keep it up to date!
The index spreadsheet includes the location of the person/organisation’s base and the industry sector related to their work. There’s also a link to the relevant episode page on our website, with a player, shownotes and the links we mention. Click here to open the summary page, scroll down to see the spreadsheet, or scroll down to see the full episode list below
Podcast host Catherine Weetman cuts through the noise around circularity, getting to the heart of what’s critical, and why circular approaches should be at the core of business strategy.
A long career in manufacturing, retail and supply chain across a wide range of industries gave her an inside track on the complexities, risks and blind spots that make it hard for businesses to see the disruptive trends, long-term threats and changing business landscape.
For over a decade, Catherine has been exploring how fair, regenerative and circular approaches are better for people, planet and prosperity. In 2015, she was invited to write the first edition of A Circular Economy Handbook, with a radically revised third edition published by Kogan Page in 2025. Catherine is regularly invited to give talks and keynotes at business conferences and delivers webinars and workshops to venture accelerators, companies and business support groups.
Read more about Catherine here, or listen to Catherine talking about her ‘why’ in Episode 100.
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Previous episodes
87 – Veena Sahajwalla – high-value opportunities from MICROFactories
86 Jennifer Hinton – Rethinking how profit is used
Bonus – BONUS India Hamilton – SCOOP – part two
85 India Hamilton – SCOOP – transforming local food systems
84 Jo Chidley – Reposit – reusable packaging for consumer goods
83 – Kim Baker – funding equitable, market-driven circular solutions
82 – Maria Westerbos – Plastic Soup Foundation
81 – René Bethmann – circular designs for outdoor sports gear
80 – Evolving and scaling
Podcast music
Thanks to Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow, otherwise known as the brilliant, inventive and generous folk duo, O’Hooley & Tidow, for allowing me to use the instrumentals from the live version of Summat’s Brewin’ as music for the podcast. You can find the whole track (inspired by the Copper Family song “Oh Good Ale”) on their album, also called Summat’s Brewin’. You can follow them on Twitter too.
