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Have you ever been to a hotel and woken up in the middle of the night with a nagging pain in your back, because your mattress was soft as a sponge?
In this episode of the Podcast “2040 j’y va!”, we’re going to talk about mattresses. This precious object, on which we spend between five and nine hours every night, but to which we often pay little attention. We’re going to talk about mattresses to tackle the theme of the economy of use with François Pugliese, director of Elites, who has invented a business model that allows him to rent, rather than sell, his mattresses to hoteliers. François Pugliese no longer sells beds, but sleep quality. This has enabled him to demonstrate that it is possible to maintain sustainable, artisanal production in Switzerland, while all competitors are relocating their factories to Eastern Europe.
We’ll also be meeting Charlotte Jacquot, who has been helping SMEs make the transition to a circular economy for several years.
Finally, we meet up with François Pugliese in the future, in 2040, to imagine how the circular economy has unfolded. A podcast proposed by Chantal Peyer.
Interview: Chantal Peyer
Production: Aline Blanchard
Some pictures of the Elites factory and showroom in Allaman
References:
– Lits Elites
– L’économie circulaire pour les PME : 11 clés du succès, par sanu durabilitas
– La Fabrique circulaire
– L’institut européen de l’économie de la fonctionnalité et de la coopération
– Vidéo sur l’économie de la fonctionnalité par la fondation Ellen MacArthur
– L’économie de la fonctionnalité et de la coopération, qu’est-ce que c’est? video by Christophe Sempels
– The functionality economy on the circular economy website
To find out more: recommendations from Payot booksellers
Want to know more about this topic? Here are the recommendations of Kathleen, bookseller at Payot Rive Gauche, Geneva:
– L’économie circulaire – Agir pour une Suisse durable, Dunia Brunner, Nils Moussu, 2023.
– L’économie circulaire, Aggeri, Franck, 2023.
– Croissance soutenable? La société au défi de l’économie cirulaire, Grosse, François, 2023.
– Activating the circular economy, Buttin, Nicolas ; Saffre, Brieuc, 2015, éditions Eyrolle.
Support
The podcast “2040, j’y vais!” is made possible thanks to the support of the Giovannini Foundation, the canton of Vaud, the city of Fribourg, the city of Meyrin, HEKS, One Planet Lab and Services Industriels de Genève. We would also like to thank our distribution partners: the Impact Hub Lausanne-Geneva, the Swiss Business Federation and sanu.
