Celebrating Circularity: Highlights from the All-Island Circular Venture Awards 2025
- Circuleire IMR
- 20 hours ago
- 2 min read
For our closing round-up of the 2025 All-Island Circular Venture Awards, we present our highlights video showcasing all the elements of a successful event - speeches from Minister of State with responsibility for Circular Economy, Alan Dillon TD and Micheal Cassidy IMR CTO; all the shortlisted companies, expert judges, ESB’s fantastic venue, circular award fabrication, the audience, award giving by Martina Hennessy, Department of Climate, Energy & the Environment (DCEE) and a collective team effort!
Congratulations again to our winners Mary O´Riordan and Lisa O´Riordan from HaPPE Earth with their transformation of single-use PPE into a circular solution, replacing plastics with compostable materials, converting waste into fertiliser, and delivering ESG insights cutting costs, carbon, and complexity. Having seen their sharp, passionate and precise pitch, we were thrilled that the judges chose HaPPE Earth to take the award home! HaPPE Earth embodies circular innovation, excellence, execution strength, commercial viability, and a persevering, pioneering vision.
Congratulations to Adam Hankin from Gemell Technology, first finalist with their digital solution for the textile sector to reduce unnecessary sample waste through data driven 3D visualisation and analytics. Gemell Technology pioneers digitally based technologies that make it easy for actors and supply chains to reduce waste and scale sustainably. We were delighted Adam’s engaging presentation about Gemell’s digital twins of fibre, yarn and fabric earned the venture second place!
Congratulations to Lavanya Bhandari from Ecoroots, second finalist with its data-driven compostable mycelium packaging. Ecoroots’ holistic circularity story exemplifies the systemic level of change required to bring the circular economy to life. We were extremely happy to see how Lavanya’s visually stunning presentation connected with the audience and gained Ecoroots third place.
We look forward to the 2026 All-Island Circular Venture Awards!
Keep an eye on our socials for updates.