Most Innovative Finalists & Winners
2021-2023
The Reusies Most Innovative Reuse Company award honors forward-thinking businesses that provide a service to keep reusables circulating in our economy.
Learn more about past years’ finalists and winners.
2023: Food & Beverage
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Re:Dish - Winner
Re:Dish is building the warewashing infrastructure—and the software to manage it—that makes reuse possible at scale. This backend solution supports both the turnkey, enterprise-calibrated reusables program and washing third-party reusable wares.
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Boomerang Water
Boomerang's closed-loop, semi-automated, high-throughput process bottles 350-400 returnable aluminum and glass bottles per hour, displacing 1 million single-use bottles annually.
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DeliverZero
DeliverZero is a full-service reusable packaging solution that eliminates single-use packaging waste. As a neutral network of returnable, reusable takeout containers DeliverZero can integrate with any online ordering platform or point of sale system.
2023: Consumer Packaged Goods
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Generation Conscious - Winner
Generation Conscious built a zero waste, zero water infrastructure to end hygiene insecurity while diverting tons of waste. Their plastic-free refill stations distribute accessible, non-toxic, hypoallergenic, biodegradable laundry detergent sheets.
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Returnity
Returnity designs, manufactures, and implements reusable shipping & delivery packaging solutions for brands and retailers. They launched The Last Box, a cost and labor efficient alternative to cardboard that enables clients to move products between factories, stores and warehouses.
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Revolusation
Revolusation is helping build the foundations of the new circular economy by re-engineering single-use products and packaging into reusable versions, and creating the systems needed for circulation.
2023: Fashion & Apparel
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Bleckmann - Winner
The Renewal Workshop by Bleckmann identified a need in the market for apparel and textile brands to extend the life of their post-consumer products once considered waste. They created The Renewal System to restore products to standardized conditions so they could be resold.
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alternew
Alternew is the first online platform that is changing the way we care for our wardrobe. Customers connect with a specialist that meets their tailoring, altering, and repair needs and preferences.
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Treet
Treet helps fashion brands reduce their footprint and increase customer loyalty through resale. Their platform allows brands of any size to launch a resale experience where their customers can buy and sell their pre-loved items, ensuring each item lives its longest life.
2022: Food & Beverage
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r.Cup - Winner
r.Cup (now r.World) was the first national reuse company in North America and one of the first movers on reusable cups in the country, securing big partnerships and investors from event companies and musicians with the likes of U2, the Rolling Stones, Dave Matthews Band, and Jack Johnson.
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Dispatch Goods
Dispatch Goods is a women-owned reusable takeout service provider that makes it easy for your food to be delivered in reusable packaging. They partner with enterprise food delivery services like Imperfect Foods as well as with restaurants – collecting, washing, and resupplying foodware.
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Just Salad
Just Salad has the longest-running reusable packaging program in the restaurant industry, offering reusable bowls for their salads since the company was founded in 2006. They’ve demonstrated how reuse can be integrated into a growth business and are continuously innovating around this model.
2022: Consumer Packaged Goods
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Algramo - Winner
Algramo has enabled global brands - like Unilever, Nestle, Walmart, and Colgate - to create smart reusable systems which focus on selling just the product and eliminating the need for single-use packaging.
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GOATOTE
GOATOTE is a reusable bag system that allows you to check out shopping bags and return them when you are finished to convenient stand-alone kiosks. Their systems took off in select Walmart, Target and CVS Health stores during the Beyond the Bag Pilots in the summer of 2021.
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Returnity
Returnity designs, manufactures and implements reusable packaging and circular logistics systems, replacing single-use packaging in shipping.
2022: Fashion & Apparel
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Thrilling - Winner
Thrilling is a BIPOC-owned company with a mission to rewrite the secondhand shopping narrative, putting marginalized voices at the forefront. They helped digitize local, independent thrift stores across the US and are providing additional sources of revenue for vintage store owners while also providing a second lease on life for clothing.
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FABSCRAP
Fabscrap engages local volunteers and is tackling the fashion waste challenge in New York City. A one-stop textile reuse and recycling resource, they are working to end commercial textile “waste” and maximize the value of unused fabric.
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Poshmark
Poshmark is a leading social marketplace for new and secondhand styles for women, men, kids, pets, home, and more. Beyond cultivating a community of secondhand sellers, the platform creates significant economic opportunity for both casual sellers and career resellers.
2022: Enabling Technology
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The Rounds - Winner
The Rounds is revolutionizing the "15-minute delivery" concept with a "psychic home manager" that manages the inventory of everyday essentials in your home, learns what customers need, refills personalized amounts based on your household’s usage, and delivers those products (weekly – by electric bicycle) in reusable containers with zero packaging waste.
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Fill it Forward
Fill it Forward creates custom reusables that connect to an app which allows users to track their environmental impact and trigger charitable donations with each scan. Their unique tag model enables customers to even tag their own reusables - like a cup or tote bag - to encourage reuse of what you already have.
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Topanga.io
Topanga.io supports the transition to a circular consumption model by providing the tools needed for brands and universities to switch from single-use to reusable packaging.
2021
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Rheaply - Winner
Rheaply’s Asset Exchange Manager ™ combines an asset management system with an online marketplace that enables organizations to manage and transact physical assets more effectively. The platform measures and eliminates the need to procure new products, curbing waste in the process.
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Algramo
Algramo offers global brands platform technology coupled with smart packaging that connects with their app and internet connected dispensers – allowing consumers to buy the product and not the packaging.
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TURN
TURN's data-driven digital capture and reuse system is engineered to eliminate single-use plastic by implementing an effective reusable cup reuse and return system and capturing all product waste streams.