Meet the winners
The Reusies Most Innovative Reuse Company award recognizes innovative businesses who are taking the reuse burden off of you, the consumer, and making it a seamless part of everyday life — while helping build a regenerative, equitable, circular economy.
Most Innovative Reuse Company Winners
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Food & Beverage: Kadeya
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.
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Consumer Packaged Goods: Cabinet Health
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.
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Fashion & Apparel: Coblrshop
Coblrshop’s goal is to make shoe and bag repair easy and accessible, so that repair becomes mainstream once again. They offer a simple solution on the one hand — send in your item, they’ll repair it — while also providing a technology platform to help connect brands with cobblers to continue normalizing repair over buying new.
Video gallery: Meet the finalists
Most Innovative Food & Beverage Company Finalists
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Buoy
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.
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Revino
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.
Most Innovative Consumer Packaged Goods Company Finalists
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Good Filling
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.
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Green Gooding
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.
Most Innovative Fashion & Apparel Company Finalists
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Pact Retail
Pact Retail’s mission is simple and effective: they keep hangers and related accessories used for retail clothing in circulation and out of landfills. With an integrated tracking solution and high return rates, they offer a replicable and scalable solution to reduce waste in the fashion sector.
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Rax
Rax is an app-based, peer-to-peer wardrobe rental system – a digital clothing swap where users can lend to and borrow from fellow community members - that seeks to reduce the environmental impact of the fashion industry, encourage sustainable consumption, and inspire a shift from ownership to access.
