Meet the finalists

California-based Buoy offers an app-based foodware reuse model with thoughtfully sourced material and a strong 90% return rate. The company serves festivals, film productions, municipal restaurants and schools — including working with local Native American communities through one of its college programs.

Kadeya offers a patented beverage kiosk that washes, sanitizes, inspects, and refills bottles onsite, helping eliminate single-use plastic waste primarily at industrial worksites, hydrating essential workers with lowered logistical needs, costs, and safety risks.

With rapid growth in just over a year of operation, Revino provides refillable glass bottles to wineries, enabling them to participate in a closed-loop system with collaboratively designed, eco-friendly bottles while maintaining their brand identity.

Cabinet Health is on a mission to eliminate single-use plastic in a technically challenging arena: medical waste, and specifically drug packaging. The company created a refillable system for high-quality over-the-counter medicines and supplements, offers customized and reusable prescription bottles, and supports larger organizations in their transition away from plastic-packaged medicines.

Good Filling’s BYO and zero-waste vending machines offer a high convenience factor in a scalable solution. With a diverse and growing array of products including home and personal care, beverages, shelf-stable cooking products and more, the company is seeking to make waste reduction accessible and affordable to all.

Green Gooding is a Brooklyn-based circular rental system for gently used cooking and cleaning appliances. Their service helps consumers reuse while saving money and storage space. Green Gooding owns, maintains, and repairs its equipment, helping end the one-way-throw-away cycle that has become the unfortunate norm, even for large home appliances.