Bevi – Wynona Eurj Curaming – 2025

Summary

Wynona quantified the lifecycle carbon footprint of Bevi’s smart water cooler and identified decarbonization opportunities.

Goals

Wynona Curaming aimed to conduct a product carbon footprint analysis of Bevi’s Standup 2.0 smart water cooler and its consumables. In addition, she was asked to roughly benchmark a Bevi drink’s carbon footprint with similar beverages and develop a decarbonization strategy spanning logistics, product design, and more.

Solutions

Based on the product’s carbon hotspots and stakeholder discussions, Wynona proposed a climate action roadmap broken down by short, medium and long term. In the short term, she recommended building upon Bevi’s energy saver mode and embedding energy efficiency and climate considerations into ongoing product design. In the medium term, she encouraged expanding the use of rail, and piloting electric vans and biofuel trucking. In the long term, she advocated for piloting electric trucking and exploring lower-carbon materials for electronics, steel and plastics.

Potential Impact

Through collaboration with Bevi employees, Wynona identified strategies with the potential to reduce emissions (compared to the baseline) by 1.4 M lbs CO2eq for every 1,000 Standup 2.0 units sold, 0.18 M lbs CO2eq for every 100,000 flavor concentrates sold, and electricity savings for customers of about 200 kWh per year for every Standup 2.0 unit. About 75k USD of annual savings are estimated to be unlocked by implementing these recommendations, primarily from expanding the use of rail.