Unbottled: A Startup Podcast by Kadeya
Building the Future of Beverage — one sip, one story at a time.
Hosted by Manuela Zoninsein, founder & CEO of Kadeya, Unbottled takes you behind the scenes of building the world’s first closed-loop beverage system—a reusable, refillable, zero-waste alternative to single-use bottles.
In this limited first season, you’ll hear raw, unfiltered conversations with the people rethinking everything we know about water, plastic, and sustainability:
• Founders rewriting the rules of reuse
• Experts exposing myths about recycling and microplastics
• Investors betting on climate hardware
• Workers and operators fueling change from the ground up
From fighting plastic pollution to re-engineering the beverage supply chain, each episode dives into the problems, people, and possibilities behind the bottle.
Because the future of beverage isn’t bottled —
It’s built.
New episodes every Monday.
Unbottled: A Startup Podcast by Kadeya
How to Break Overconsumption: Ashlee Piper on No New Things & Sustainable Living
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We can’t shop our way out of the climate crisis.
In this episode of Unbottled, Manuela sits down with sustainability powerhouse Ashlee Piper - author of Give a Sht* and No New Things, TV commentator, consultant, and thrifting queen—to talk about our culture of overconsumption and what it actually looks like to live with less.
Ashlee breaks down:
- Why “eco-friendly” shopping isn’t the solution we’ve been sold
- How conditioned consumerism took over our lives (and homes)
- The story behind Ashlee’s No New Things challenge and what she learned doing it for 2 years
- Practical ways to get what you need through borrowing, swapping, secondhand, and community
- How individual habits roll up into real systems change at work and in policy
You’ll also hear about dog fostering, Chicago thrifting, and why the most radical thing you can do might be…buying nothing at all.
If you’re feeling climate anxiety, drowning in clutter, or just tired of being told to “fix the planet” by buying more “sustainable” stuff, this episode is your permission slip to do less—and live more.
💧 Unbottled is brought to you by Kadeya, building closed-loop beverage systems for a world beyond single-use.
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuelasweb/
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Substack: https://manuelazoninsein.substack.com/
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Follow Ashlee:
Website: www.ashleepiper.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/ashleepiper/
Newsletter: The Ethical Edit, https://substack.com/@theethicaledit
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Building the future of beverage—one sip, one story at a time.
Unbottled shares raw conversations with the people rethinking everything we know about water, plastic, and sustainability. Because the future of beverage isn’t bottled—it’s built. New episodes every Monday.
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