The Circular Economy Show Podcast

Circular Snapshots: Plastics treaty, battery swapping, and textile-to-textiles

Episode Notes

Welcome to another episode of Circular Snapshots. In this episode, we highlight some of the circular economy stories that mattered from August to October. The World Circular Economy Forum makes its South Asia debut and sets its sights on New York. Over 70 developing countries push for an ambitious plastics treaty. The EU Circular Economy Act is weeks away. Octopus Energy and CATL plan to make shared infrastructure for truck batteries. A new report asks why textile recycling can’t get financed. 

To find out more about each of these stories, follow the links below:

1. World Circular Economy Forum: Sitra’s write-up of the forum, its investment takeaways, the Circular Awards winners and WCEF2027 in New York. WCEF: World’s leading circularity event reveals how to unlock investment.
2. Plastics treaty: what came out of the Bangkok talks and what’s next. This is CIEL’s take, and CIEL is a campaign group, so the framing isn’t neutral. Countries unite behind effective multilateralism during plastics treaty talks in Bangkok.
3. EU Circular Economy Act: the European Parliament’s tracker for the Act. It’s neutral and will update when the proposal lands. Legislative Train: Circular Economy Act.
4. Swaptopus: Octopus Energy’s own announcement of the venture with CATL. Big on Batteries: Octopus and CATL team up to unlock electric trucking across Europe.
5. Textile recycling finance: a summary of the Accelerating Circularity report 'Systemic Bankability of Textile-to-Textile Recycling'