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Today, we’re talking to yet another entrepreneur inspired by the circular economy. Gary Giles set up his company, OGEL, to use a material that is quite difficult to recycle, and very bulky, so transporting it to be recycled is expensive. We’ll hear how Gary was inspired by the modular design of Lego, and how he’s developed a way of constructing durable, well-insulated buildings that use only 3 shapes, are easy to assemble and need very few tools.
Podcast host Catherine Weetman helps businesses use circular, regenerative and fair solutions to do better, with less.
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Read on for more on our guest and links to the people, organisations and other resources we mention.
Links we mention in the episode:
- The new Circle Lab database from Circle Economy https://knowledge-hub.circle-lab.com/
- Save our Soil online conference 24-26 February http://save-our-soil.org/
- Gary Giles on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-giles-56751014/
- OGEL https://ogel.world/
- The 2-minute video showing how the OGEL building system works is on the OGEL website, or here https://youtu.be/SDua6D4QBPQ
- Project SPECIFIC and the ‘building as a power station’ concept: https://www.specific.eu.com/about-us/
- https://epsrc.ukri.org/newsevents/casestudies/buildings-as-power-stations/
- https://www-2018.swansea.ac.uk/press-office/news-archive/2019/turninghomesintopowerstationscouldcuthouseholdfuelbillsby600ormore-report.php
- Richard Parker of E3 Design Ltd https://www.e3design.co.uk/
Gary Giles
Gary is Founder of OGEL, which is a rapid construction system that turns waste plastic into walls, floors and roofs.
It is easy to use, lightning quick to assemble and dismantle, multi-purpose, modular and fully reusable, and can be recycled to make new OGEL… which is why they call it a Full Stop Product.
To better understand it watch this 2minute video https://youtu.be/SDua6D4QBPQ
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