Niamh and Ruairí DooleyBiaSol and Circular Food CompanySiblings Niamh and Ruairí Dooley established food start-up BiaSol, creating a nutritious supplement from breweries' waste spent grain. “The spent grain is the outer layer – or husk – which breweries either gave or sold to farmers for animal feed,” she explains. Niamh and Ruairí have since set up the Circular Food Company to advise large food manufacturers on ways to upcycle byproducts and waste food. She left that in 2018 to do a PhD exploring business models for repurposing wind turbine blades. BladeBridge street furniture, made from decommissioned wind turbine blades“I’m a great believer in one person’s trash is another person’s treasure.

Source: The Irish Times April 04, 2026 12:48 UTC