Bevi is a smart beverage-dispensing machine - made with high-quality components inspired by medical devices - that filters and adds carbonation and customizable flavors to tap water in offices, gyms, and hotels.
MIT spinout Bevi believes it can cut the world's use of bottled drinks with a smart beverage machine of the same name that delivers high quality, flavored water - straight from the tap. Americans buy about 29 billion water bottles per year, and manufacturers use roughly 17 million barrels of crude oil to produce those bottles. One of every six water bottles used in the U.S. is recycled, and the rest are sent to landfills or end up littered on land and in rivers, lakes, and the ocean, where they can take hundreds of years to disintegrate. Delivering bottled beverages in trucks also produces a lot of carbon emissions. Dubbed by some media as an 'ecofriendly water cooler,' Bevi is a smart beverage-dispensing machine - made with high-quality components inspired by medical devices - that filters and adds carbonation and customizable flavors to tap water in offices, gyms, and hotels. According to the startup, Bevi machines located nationwide have saved more than 4 million plastic bottles from ending up in landfills, and each machine can potentially eliminate the use of 35,000 plastic bottles per year. The company is also shipping machines to Hong Kong and Singapore for pilot testing in the coming months.
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