The podcast about understanding, building and managing circular business models - this is the place where we dive deep into the future of business, sustainability, and circular economy. After a decade of entrepreneurial experience as a founder and investor, Carl had countless, meaningful behind-the-scenes conversations about how we can reshape industries, close the loop, and create real impact. And now, we want to bring these conversations to you. On Looped In, Carl sits down with entrepreneurs, business owners, venture capitalists, and policymakers who are at the forefront of change. Together, we’ll explore innovative business models, breakthrough technologies, and the regulations shaping the circular economy.
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Episode #24
Making Sustainability Human: Storytelling, Systems Change and Nature with Breitling CSO Aurelia Figueroa
Aug 9, 202641 minS1
Security is the word everyone is using right now, but the surprising truth is that it keeps pointing straight back to sustainability. Carl sits down with Aurelia, a chief sustainability officer and systems thinker, to map where sustainability stands in 2026 after the hype cycle and the hard reality check that followed. We talk about what’s actually progressing (the energy transition and renewables scaling faster than most headlines suggest) and what’s still dangerously behind (nature regeneration, valuing ecosystems, and the widening gap of wealth inequality). We get specific about why inequality can derail climate policy and why “just transition” can’t be a slogan. Aurelia shares a vivid on-the-ground lesson from the Yellow Vest movement era in France and explains why the success or failure of sustainability often comes down to trust, coalitions, and whether people feel they’re being asked to sacrifice without a believable payoff. That leads to a core idea: science-based evidence is essential, but leading with data alone won’t move society. Stories will. We dig into what a useful sustainability narrative sounds like, including real scenarios that show what life can look like on the other side of change. You’ll also hear an inside look at corporate sustainability in global luxury brands, from high-risk upstream supply chains to responsible sourcing shifts like artisanal small-scale gold and lab-grown diamonds. We cover why startups are a non-negotiable ingredient for circular economy progress, how communities like Imagine and Villars help leaders stay brave, and how reconnecting to nature can reshape the way we lead. If this conversation sharpens your thinking, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find it. Contact Us This is interactive content - send us your questions to the guests and we record another session just focusing on your questions! You have suggestions for new guests or want to sponsor the show? Contact Carl via LinkedIn Thanks for listening and keep podcasting!
Dissolver: The Modular Technology Removing the Hidden Chemicals from Textile Waste with Founders Ditte & Charlotte
Jul 12, 202637 minS1
Textile recycling sounds simple until you touch real post-consumer waste. It’s not just cotton and polyester. It’s elastane blends, heat-transfer logos, dyes, heavy metals, and PFAS that can derail downstream processing and destroy product quality. From Brussels, we sit down with Charlotte and Ditte from Denmark-based Dissolver to unpack a different angle on chemical textile recycling: don’t break the polymers if you don’t have to, clean them. We walk through Dissolver’s modular, selective solvent approach for contaminant removal and why “designed for complexity” matters more than perfect feedstock. They explain how their process targets disruptors module by module, how solvent recovery works (their “washing dishes” analogy makes it click), and why keeping polyester intact can avoid some of the energy and refining burden seen in depolymerization routes. We also get practical about the messy middle of the value chain: what sorting is realistic, why Dissolver starts from shredded fibers, and the open question of who should own hard-part removal across a new recycling infrastructure. Then we zoom out to scaling. Dissolver shares plans for an industrial pilot built to de-risk unit economics and prove off-take with spinners, plus a second path where individual modules can plug into other recyclers’ plants as preprocessing. We talk about siting decisions, Europe’s policy tailwinds, Asia’s gravity in textile manufacturing, and why the next decade likely brings both collaboration and consolidation across technologies. If you care about circular fashion, fiber-to-fiber recycling, PFAS removal, elastane challenges, and what it takes to build real industrial capacity, hit play. Subscribe, share this with someone in the textile value chain, and leave a review telling us which part of textile recycling you think is hardest to scale. Contact Us This is interactive content - send us your questions to the guests and we record another session just focusing on your questions! You have suggestions for new guests or want to sponsor the show? Contact Carl via LinkedIn Thanks for listening and keep podcasting!
Reinventing Vinyl: Sustainable Records with Good Neighbor Music Co-Founder Tim Anderson
Jun 29, 202658 minS1
Vinyl is back, but the way we make records is stuck in an older industrial playbook. Carl joins us from our LA studio to explain how a booming physical format collides with modern climate expectations, from PVC-based materials to shrink wrap and global shipping that drags out release timelines for artists who want their music out now. If you care about sustainable manufacturing, circular economy ideas, and the future of music merch, this conversation gets surprisingly concrete. We follow Carl’s journey from touring and producing to founding Good Neighbor, then dig into the technology shift that makes their approach different: injection-molded PET records developed with Green Vinyl Records in the Netherlands. We talk energy use, why moving away from natural gas-heavy pressing matters, and how rPET opens the door to turning recycled bottles into high-quality records. Just as important, we get into the unglamorous parts of climate tech in the music industry: fundraising, hardware costs, pricing pressure, and why “green” only works if the product still sounds incredible. From there, we zoom out to the bigger vision: cleaner packaging, fewer plastics, smarter merch, and even a festival-to-factory loop where local cups and bottles could become records tied to the show you just watched. We also close with a great behind-the-scenes Billie Eilish moment that captures how unpredictable creative careers can be. If you want more stories like this at the intersection of entertainment and sustainability, subscribe, share this with a friend who buys vinyl, and leave us a review. Contact Us This is interactive content - send us your questions to the guests and we record another session just focusing on your questions! You have suggestions for new guests or want to sponsor the show? Contact Carl via LinkedIn Thanks for listening and keep podcasting!
Building Textile Recycling at Scale with Syre CEO Dennis Nobelius
May 25, 202630 minS1
<p>A recycling breakthrough is useless if it never reaches real scale and Syre is betting everything on getting there fast. From Syre’s office in Stockholm, we talk with CEO Dennis about why they chose polyester as the first target, why their mission is “speed and scale,” and why they believe the textile industry needs industrial capacity now, not a decade from now.<br/><br/>We dig into Syre’s unusually customer-driven origin story and how off-take agreements change the rules of the game. Dennis shares how commitments from global brands like H&M, Nike, and Target help unlock project...
Making Sustainability personal with The CSO Shop Founder Danielle Azoulay
May 18, 202640 minS1
<p>Your favorite “sustainable” product might still be built for the trash. Carl sits down with Danielle from The CSO Shop, a longtime sustainability leader and fractional CSO, to get brutally practical about what circularity really demands and why recycling is only a small piece of the circular economy.<br/><br/>We start where consumers actually live: what goes in us, on us, and around us. Danielle explains why beauty and personal care are such a powerful consumer climate tech lever, then connects the dots to what companies can realistically do today when suppliers, materials, and infrastructure limit the options. We t...
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