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Beyond the Business

Beyond the Business

By: Alex White
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Beyond the Business is a narrative podcast about the systems that quietly shape modern business — energy, infrastructure, sustainability, technology, and risk. Each episode deconstructs the economic logic behind today’s transitions, exposing hidden costs, legacy structures, and long-term consequences that rarely appear in boardrooms or reports. It’s about helping business see the system it operates in more clearly. My LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-byelyavtsev-a702a22a/Alex White Economics
Episodes
  • S7E6 What Industry Leaves Behind

    S7E6 What Industry Leaves Behind
    Oct 21 2026

    The last tyre you replaced is unlikely to come back as the tyre you put on. Not because the engineer failed. Because the engineer succeeded.

    A wind blade is glued not to peel. A needle is used once on purpose. A hull was sold as the one that would not rot. By the time a recycler sees it, the important meeting is over.

    What does industry leave behind when durability becomes waste?
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    20 mins
  • S7E5 The Factory of Waste

    S7E5 The Factory of Waste
    Oct 18 2026

    What would the perfect waste factory look like?

    The bag goes in. Cameras read the object. Robots pick it. Plastic comes apart. Gold comes out of an old laptop. Heat goes into radiators.

    Those machines already exist. They just do not live in one building.

    So how close are we, really, to a factory that can deal with waste?
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    19 mins
  • S7E4 Waste Markets

    S7E4 Waste Markets
    Oct 15 2026

    Same drink. Three containers. Three completely different lives after you finish it.

    A soft-drink bottle competes with oil. An aluminium can is already a commodity. A glass bottle can remelt forever and still fail if the furnace is too far away.

    There is no single recycling market. Waste becomes a commodity only when somebody wants to buy what comes out. And if they do not, who creates the buyer?
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    20 mins
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