Circular Hot Takes

In this podcast we dig into the questions that keep the circular economy field up at night. In each episode, we unpack a real case, a new tool, or a policy shift — often with guests from industry, startups, and research. Expect honest takes on what actually works, what doesn't, and why the gap between ambition and adoption persists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Episode #3

  #CHT003: What Does Regenerative Business Actually Mean?

  Sep 9, 202632 minS0

  In this episode of Circular Hot Takes, we turn to regeneration. What does it actually mean for a business to be regenerative — and does every company need to become one? We move beyond regenerative agriculture and explore what regeneration can mean for ecosystems, communities, employees, finance and the resources businesses depend on. We discuss regenerative finance, place-based responsibility, investing in ecosystems rather than individual firms, and why regeneration may make straightforward business sense when companies rely on healthy soils, communities, skills, water, biodiversity or other resources over time. We also ask whether the regenerative agenda risks setting the bar too hi...

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  #CHT002: How to Make Sense of the Circular Economy

  Sep 9, 202626 minS0

  In this episode of Circular Hot Takes, we go back to some of the ideas that helped make the circular economy easier to understand. Marking the tenth anniversary of the 2016 paper Product Design and Business Model Strategies for a Circular Economy, we revisit the logic of narrowing, slowing and closing resource loops—and how regeneration later became part of the picture. We look at where these ideas came from, how they helped connect environmental thinking with business and economics, and what the circular economy really boils down to. Why can simple design principles be so powerful, and how do they tr...

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  #CHT001: Welcome to Circular Hot Takes!

  Sep 9, 202631 minS0

  Welcome to Circular Hot Takes. In this first episode, Nancy Bocken, Ankita Das, Sveinung Jørgensen and Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen bring the band together and take stock of where the circular economy stands in 2026. Circularity has moved from the margins into corporate strategies, policy agendas and boardrooms, yet the gap between ambition and adoption remains stubbornly large. We discuss why so many promising circular initiatives struggle to move from pilots to scale, why the action increasingly shifts from individual firms to business ecosystems, and how experimentation, finance, measurement, resource security and resilience are changing the conversation. We also look b...

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