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Ethan Fox

Ethan Fox

Dr Athan Fox is a Cambridge-educated chemist and cleantech entrepreneur, co-founder and CTO of Regenerate Technology Global and Ever Resource, focused on battery recycling and circular-economy innovation.

Sep 25, 2026

1:35
What are we missing?
1:37
Well, it's no surprise that the two are closely linked or associated.
1:42
Recycling and circularity are indeed very much connected.
1:48
But recycling is just an economic activity.
1:52
It has a financial benefit, an environmental benefit, hopefully both and at the same time.
1:59
But circularity, on the other hand, is part of a wider system.
2:07
Let's take a look at those two words in turn.

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15:00
You know, we have the system also in France, which was called the, um, that means the three DDDs, you know, to collect anything that had, um, um you know telephones computers or anything that have you know any elements that we could recuperate you know there's a lot of precious metals in those so um how can we end this by being is it better to be green or cheap but you gave me you gave me an idea when you talked about atoms Are we really downgrading the atoms to perform less in their recycled mode? Or are we really creating value when, like you said, it's wow, you know, what's the choice? What's the toss up?

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