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What does circular economy actually mean?

Do you know the feeling?

You’re at an event, the usual introduction round begins.

Intercultural change management.
Financial advisory.
Plastic surgery.
Criminal profiling.
Naturopathy.

And me:

Circular economy.

Everyone else got asked about the details of their job.

I got asked what my topic even is, first.

It made me think.

I love going deep. Give me reverse logistics, R-strategies, business-case modelling, and I’m happy for hours.

But that room reminded me of something easy to forget when you live inside a subject:

Not everyone starts where you are.

And that’s not a gap to be impatient about — it’s where the most useful conversations begin.

So let me take a step back and simply ask.

If you’re completely new to circular economy — what would you actually like to understand about it?

What’s the question you’ve never quite had answered?

And if you’re already in it — which part would you want to go deeper on?

I’d genuinely like to know.

Because the best way to make a topic matter to more people is to start from what they want to understand — not from what I find fascinating.