In this week’s podcast Private Equity Wire sat down with Andrew Shannon, partner at Circularity Capital, a specialist private equity firm backing growth stage European SMEs in the ‘circular economy’, to talk about the symmetric relationship between investment and circularity, and what the green initiatives in Rishi Sunak’s 2021 budget could mean for private equity.
In this week’s podcast Private Equity Wire sat down with Andrew Shannon, partner at Circularity Capital, a specialist private equity firm backing growth stage European SMEs in the ‘circular economy*’, to talk about the workings of the circular economy, the symmetric relationship between investment and circularity, and what the green initiatives in Rishi Sunak’s 2021 budget could mean for private equity.
*The circular economy is a term for an industrial economy that is restorative by design, and aims to ‘design out’ waste as far as possible. Waste does not exist; products are instead designed to re-enter the economy while maintaining value.