Ep 51: Revisiting Kadeya, the Future of Reusable Water Bottles

For Everybody In the Pool's first anniversary, Molly Wood looks back at one innovative company that made a huge impression last year.We re-air a fascinating episode featuring Manuela Zoninstein, CEO and founder of Kadeya. Kadeya is revolutionizing the beverage industry by eliminating single-use containers. Their unique system dispenses reusable stainless steel bottles filled with filtered local tap water. After use, these bottles are returned to the machine for washing, sanitizing, and refilling, creating a sustainable closed-loop system.Manuela shares her journey and the innovative concept behind Kadeya, highlighting how the company addresses the waste problem with this groundbreaking solution. She also discusses the challenges of scaling the business and the significant positive environmental impact Kadeya has achieved through its pioneering circular economy model.In This Episode, We Cover:The innovative concept behind Kadeya and how it worksManuela's journey and inspiration for tackling the waste problemThe environmental impact of Kadeya's system and its carbon footprint reductionThe unexpected success in markets like construction sites and Air Force basesHow COVID-19 shifted Kadeya's focus and led to new opportunitiesLinks:Kadeya: https://www.kadeya.com/All episodes: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected]! To support the show and get an ad-free listening experience, please jump in and become a member of Everybody in the Pool! https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.