Episode 46 Gary Giles – OGEL

Today, we’re talking to yet another entrepreneur inspired by the circular economy. Gary Giles set up his company, OGEL, to use a material that is quite difficult to recycle, and very bulky, so transporting it to be recycled is expensive. We’ll hear how Gary was inspired by the modular design of Lego, and how he’s developed a way of constructing durable, well-insulated buildings that use only 3 shapes, are easy to assemble and need very few tools. Podcast host Catherine Weetman is a circular economy business advisor, workshop facilitator, speaker and writer.  Her award-winning book: A Circular Economy Handbook: How to Build a More Resilient, Competitive and Sustainable Business includes lots of practical examples and tips on getting started.  Catherine founded Rethink Global in 2013, to help businesses use circular, sustainable approaches to build a better business (and a better world). Stay in touch for free insights and updates... Read on for a summary of the podcast and links to the people, organisations and other resources we mention. You can subscribe to the podcast series on iTunes, Google Podcasts, PlayerFM, Spotify, TuneIn, or search for "circular economy" in your favourite podcast app.  Stay in touch to get free insights and updates, direct to your inbox... Links we mention in the episode: * The new Circle Lab database from Circle Economy https://knowledge-hub.circle-lab.com/ * Save our Soil online conference 24-26 February http://save-our-soil.org/ * Gary Giles on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-giles-56751014/ * OGEL https://ogel.world/ * The 2-minute video showing how the OGEL building system works is on the OGEL website, or here https://youtu.be/SDua6D4QBPQ * Project SPECIFIC and the ‘building as a power station’ concept: https://www.specific.eu.com/about-us/ * https://epsrc.ukri.org/newsevents/casestudies/buildings-as-power-stations/ * https://www-2018.swansea.ac.uk/press-office/news-archive/2019/turninghomesintopowerstationscouldcuthouseholdfuelbillsby600ormore-report.php * Richard Parker of E3 Design Ltd https://www.e3design.co.uk/ About person Gary is Founder of OGEL, which is a rapid construction system that turns waste plastic into walls,