🎙️ What does circular economy really mean, beyond the green slogans? ♻️

In this conversation, Gabor and Dr Phillip Wallat cut through the buzz to explore why turning circular theory into practice is messy, political, and full of trade-offs.

✨ What you’ll hear:

• 🚫 Why circularity ≠ just recycling
• 🔧 The design choices that decide repairability and reuse
• ⚖️ Trade-offs between cost, performance, and sustainability
• 🤖 How AI, robotics, and 3D printing might help—or not
• 🌍 Global inequalities and the risk of leaving poorer regions behind
• 📜 The policy gaps and IP battles that block progress

This episode isn’t a celebration of circularity as a cure-all. It’s a candid look at the blind spots, cultural barriers, and hard questions we must confront if circular economy is to be more than a marketing slogan.