Two award wins and four additional shortlists have just been added to our range of achievements, reflecting our unwavering commitment to sustainability, innovation and customer excellence.
Bringing together more than 500 of Ireland’s recycling, waste management and environmental leaders, the Chambers Ireland Awards exist to recognise the organisations genuinely moving the needle on sustainability.
Recycling and Waste Management Company of the Year – Gold
Category: Culture, ESG & Responsibility for the environment
From e-bikes weaving through Dublin’s busiest streets to biomethane powering the trucks that serve the roads of our country, from a Cleaner Bin Imaging Service that is quietly revolutionising recycling behaviour to a partnership with one of Ireland’s busiest airports, our work around sustainability has been instrumental in tackling the circular economy.
At Panda, we have revolutionised the disposal process by developing an innovative approach to recycle hard-to-recycle materials while also diverting hazardous waste from landfill.
This isn’t one initiative.
It’s an entire operating model built around the circular economy. Winning this award is a reflection of every team, every route, and every tonne that makes that possible.
Team of the Year – Silver
Category: Strategy, Leadership & Financial Performance
Behind every successful transformation are the people who make it happen. In 2025, our Transformation Team and Change Ambassador network led one of the most significant periods of change in Panda’s history, delivering new systems, a new brand, new values, and a new way of working across Ireland and the UK. By combining strategic focus with genuine employee engagement, they ensured change wasn’t just implemented. It was embraced.
Winning this award recognises the collaboration, resilience, and leadership that helped shape Panda’s next chapter.
Also Shortlisted
If two wins weren’t enough, we were also shortlisted across 4 more categories:
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Customer & Market Engagement – Brand of the Year: From Many to One: How the Panda rebrand redefined a brand, a business, and a belief
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Technology & Digital Innovation – Digital Transformation & Technology Award: Built to transform: How Panda digitised its operations from the ground up
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Culture, ESG & Responsibility – Green/Sustainable Company of the Year: How Panda is embedding circularity into every mile, truck & communication
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Customer & Market Engagement – Inhouse Marketing and Communications Team of the Year: One team, one brand: How Panda’s in-house marketing team brought our brand together