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In this episode of the Blue Earth Podcast, Guy Hayler speaks with Sorina Uleia, Founder and CEO of Recycllux, a 2025 BE100 company and Blue Earth Ventures member. They explore how a personal moment in the sea led to a platform using AI, satellite data and blockchain to detect, trace and orchestrate marine plastic clean-ups. Sorina shares Recycllux’s journey from grants to commercial scale, its £1m seed raise via Blue Earth, and the ambition to build an operating system for ocean regeneration.

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When you meet Gareth Bradford, it becomes clear this isn’t just a conversation about planning, property or policy, it’s about places, and how we design them to work for people, nature and long-term prosperity.

In this episode of the Blue Earth Podcast, Will Hayler sits down with Gareth Bradford, Director of Strategic Business Development at The Crown Estate, to explore a journey that spans lifeguarding in Exmouth, shaping national policy in Downing Street, and now helping steward some of the UK’s most important land, seabed and urban spaces.

Together, they discuss:

• How early connections to nature shape lifelong purpose
• Why planning is a force for good, when driven by vision, not process
• Offshore wind as a lever for jobs, skills and nature recovery
• A place-based approach to regeneration, from the Humber to Regent Street to Cambridge
• The economic case for nature, wellbeing and urban greening
• Leadership, emotional intelligence and the future of public-private partnership

It’s a wide-ranging conversation about energy, nature, innovation and inequality, and what it really means to design a future that works for everyone.

Listen now to hear how one of the UK’s most influential institutions is thinking long-term about people, planet and prosperity.

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In this episode of the Blue Earth Podcast, Guy Hayler sits down with Ross Waddington (Founder & CEO) and Mark Jukes (Head of Investor Relations) from Fastr Charging to explore a grid-first rethink of EV infrastructure. They unpack why today’s charging networks are already out of date, how OptiFast delivers consistent ultra-fast charging at every bay, and why Fastr is raising £250m with Blue Earth Ventures to roll out 100 sites across the UK.

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In this episode of the Blue Earth Podcast, Guy Hayler sits down with James Hole (CEO) and Matthew Ridd (COO), co-founders of Wuva and new Blue Earth Ventures members. Starting with Christmas trees and a mountain of post-holiday waste, James and Matt share how they arrived at a simple but powerful insight: most products are used for a fraction of their lifespan, and ownership hasn’t kept up with how we really live.

They explain how Wuva is becoming the “Klarna for renting”, helping brands offer rentals and subscriptions directly from their own sites while Wuva handles the complexity behind the scenes, from risk and regulation to payments and returns. We explore the shift from linear to circular, why economics have to work before sustainability can scale, and Wuva’s ambition to run over £1bn of circular transactions in the UK within five years.

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The UK’s food system is broken, and Wylde Market’s founder, Nick, is on a mission to fix it.

In this episode of the Blue Earth Podcast, Guy Hayler sits down with the co-founder of Wylde Market, the UK’s online farmers market delivering regenerative, organic and small-scale produce straight to your door. It’s a deep, honest and surprising conversation about how a former city lawyer ended up challenging the dominance of supermarkets, and why millions of people are hungry for something better. Nick shares the unexpected journey that shaped him: from the legal world to global brand consultancy, to six years living in rural Spain where he fell in love with true food culture. Returning to the UK, he was stunned by the quality gap between what the nation produces and what consumers can actually access, and Wylde Market was born.

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